skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the reproducibility crisis in science (esp. in fields like psychology, where an estimated two-thirds of papers aren't replicable), it's good to be skeptical of new work instead of saying "scientists showed this! now let's redo an entire part of the world".

An important real consequence of scientism: the war on fat circa 1960, overconsumption of sugar, and resulting diabetes epidemic.

(Spoken as a practicing scientist.)
Man, this is crazy awesome stuff. I wonder if you could use a deep dream type thing to make an image more like your own style - that'd be next level.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Hide/Move/Replace the Unity Menubar

- DESCRIPTION: Please have an auto-hide function at minimum? Better would be to move the time/settings to the "dock" when you set the "move the menus to the app windows" option, and then removing menubar entirely.

- RATIONALE: It was awful the last time I used Ubuntu on a multi-monitor setup, wasting space on all displays. And having to click an app and window to give it focus, then swinging the cursor up to select a menu, then back to the app... I'm not sure why anyone would move the action (menu) from the context of the action (focused window).

Otherwise, I really do like Unity, especially since it has useful global keybindings out of the box.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer, but use Ubuntu for my personal dev ThinkPad.

P.S. I just started listening to The Changelog and your interview was very insightful. Thanks! For those interested: https://changelog.com/podcast/207
If the printed money is identical? No, you'd be treated the same for both.

If you're talking about different bills then your analogy obviously doesn't apply.
If knife manufacturers are promoting and supporting their product on a forum devoted to the illegal use of knives... they probably could (and should)
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

-HEADLINE: Ability to port/run android native apps on Ubuntu

- DESCRIPTION: Linux is amazing for development purposes but it lacks a good collection of 3rd party apps, which is holding it back against Mac OS. If Ubuntu can have a better integration with 3rd party apps like Evernote, Google Drive, Twitter(it exists, but not as good as the original), it can surely replace other OS in the market.

-ROLE: Data Scientist in a startup
If the answer is: "expose both interfaces" then my implementation is exactly it :)
GraphQL & REST API for your database (https://subzero.cloud/)
At the core sits PostgREST (https://postgrest.com/)
Thanks for posting the video, it's a nice demo of the tool. This is actually a really awesome program I could see myself using to control and monitor my own machines.

Yes, this clearly has the kitchen sink of functionality thrown in. In many ways this looks like a platform for experimentation, with the developer clearly building this as a labor of love and learning as much, if not more so, than a commercial enterprise.

> What exactly is the legitimate use of disabling the webcam indicator remotely?

In a context menu labeled 'Swiss Army Knife' there's an option to Enable/Disable webcam light. There's also options like making the computer speaker beep. By the way, most video recording software provide options to toggle the webcam light in advanced menus.

Under an option called 'NanoStress' you can send several traffic patterns. Yes, it even has a bit of iPerf built in.

Frankly this is a really neat tool with tons of useful applications. It's highly distressing that this could get you raided and charged in Federal court with conspiracy.
Presumably that since Apple directly controls it's software updates, that this sort of thing doesn't occur on their platform.
That's what happens when "Displays have separate spaces" turned on. (With that setting on, windows are only present on one monitor at a time, and, when dragging a window, that transition happens when the mouse cursor moves between displays.)

With "Displays have separate spaces" turned off (so windows can be present on more than one monitor at a time), it looks like windows take their DPI setting from whichever monitor the majority of the window is on-- with my current two-monitor setup, the DPI transition happens at the halfway point of a window, regardless of where the mouse is as I'm dragging.
OK here goes..

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Drop Mir & collaborate with Wayland

- DESCRIPTION: I know this is a touchy subject and I'm not looking to self-righteously re-re-re-ligitage everything but... between Intel walking away, licensing concerns, Ubuntu varients not jumping onboard, and various community concerns, would you re-consider abandoning mir and joining forces with Wayland? I understand you felt there were some technical shortcomings regarding how input devices were handled. Perhaps in today's climate those concerns can be better addressed by Wayland if you can provide the engineering leadership on those efforts?

- ROLE: Code Janitor
The small-town ideal, IMO, would be an apartments-over-shops Main Street that runs for a few blocks, maybe similar construction for a few blocks on the cross streets. Then duplexes and small lot single-family homes farther out, then larger lots and farms.

Small towns in the US used to be like this, but the main streets are all dead now for various reasons. (The big reason that I can think of is that franchises prefer to build their own buildings on the fringe of town rather than move into main street buildings, plus the rise of Wal-Mart, but there surely must be others.)
sounds like you're keeping too many old kernels, I've had this problem too in the past..try this nice little oneliner:
dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -V | sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

really, this is what your package manager should do automatically before/after installing new kernels

for your reference:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-old-kern...
My experience with Ubuntu-preinstalled Dell laptops is far from perfect.

At one point, Ubuntu updated the binary nvidia driver in the LTS release (the one that came preinstalled on that particular Dell model, I think 14.04). The new driver removed support for the chip in the laptop, making it unusable without some extensive fishing for old driver packages and freezing further updates.
Yes, exactly! None of these things are mutually exclusive.

Decrying liberal/conservative media bias while being stuck within that same spectrum is an entirely impotent critique to me if you don't understand the structural incentives that make all media outlets opposed to reporting truth/facts to the public (cf. *Manufacturing Consent).
it has been broken for a while; nobody maintains it afaik
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: make the GUI more like traditional Unix GUIs

DESCRIPTION:

the default GUI to have a look-and-feel similar to xfce (as I have it set up on all my machines), specifically:

- 8 virtual desktops
- the window with input focus doesn't have to be the one at the top
- minimize, maximize and close buttons at the right of the window title bar
They fought hard to create a platform where this type of thing doesn't/can't happen.
There are middle managers who take a position and tell you. They may not always get their way but at least you know where they are at. But I also see a lot people who take no position, call meetings all day, don't contribute anything concrete but in the end still manage to get credit.
When people chase the money they end up becoming doctors and then chopping off men's masculinity organ. Search and you will find that.
Nothing new.

Downvoting should be illegal, I know..
Limit Ad Tracking: enabled.
It is worth mentioning the huge spam potential that ~unlimited~ @mentions can have: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8Nvg4EUwAE3Kzx.jpg (screenshot)
Solus uses https://github.com/ikeydoherty/clr-boot-manager now, which purges old kernels and modules, but keeps the modules for the currently running system so HW still works
Direct link to research paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf
In the US we spend about half of our national budget on social programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, grants to build affordable housing, public education grants, the Veterans Administration (which mostly covers health care for veterans), and so on. We also spend a significant amount of money on agricultural subsidies of many kinds.

In contrast, we spend approximately 1% of our budget on all of NASA - including NASA's deep space exploration programs, it's earth sensing programs, and its manned spaceflight programs, in addition to the unsung work it does in aeronautics, which includes helping develop more efficient passenger planes and safer, more efficient air traffic control. Which means that we spend considerably less than 1% of the federal budget on deep space mission technologies like this one.

So I have a question for you in response to your question: if we can't solve world hunger by spending 50% of our national budget, why should I believe that we can solve it by spending 51%?

Can't we take just a little bit of our budget and spend it on something where we can make real technological progress, right now, and see where that leads us?

These kind of arguments have always struck me as similar to thinking that you can pay off your mortgage by cancelling your newspaper subscription. The math just doesn't work, and in the meantime you actively make yourself less educated.
Yes there is native 4 finger swipes to change desktop on Wayland. And I wrote an extension to add 3 finger gesture support for an action of your choice. Check it out here: https://github.com/mpiannucci/GnomeExtendedGestures
Not sure about the first one, but the later two are illegal in a lot of countries.
Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?
I recently sold a product for a small amount - enough to not have to work for 6-9 months without touching any other savings or investments. I'm curious - what would you do if you had 6-9 months (call it runway or time off)

Note: after 6 months I'd likely be consulting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=paveldurov

By the way, it is also worth noting that Nikolai Durov, designer of MTProto, is completely absent from any public discussions of that protocol. Doesn't like talking to the plebs, I suppose.
5 Things You Need to Automate in Your Business
Universe and multiverse disabled by default.
The daily HN dose of anti-car hysteria is here right on schedule. I can't help but think there's some deep-pocketed companies making sure that "autonomous cars are our only future!" and "there's no point in trying to get the government to spend money on roads!" are the standard refrains on this and other sites frequented by millenials.
Hi, Noiszy creator here. You're totally right - Firefox is next!
Offensive? No, not what I meant. I meant that your argument loses part of its credibility by using it. :)

Doesn't matter thought because I overall agree with you.
Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Responding, in the spirit of your comment, to acknowledge my agreement, rather than just upvoting invisibly.
it feels like there's a new deep learning paper each week, ever so slightly bringing me closer to an existential nervous breakdown.
This exists in Gnome 3.22 and up
I'm confident there is an extremely large gap between a game developer with an open-source video game on Steam (which does not use Steam's DRM feature or any 3rd party DRM) and a developer who writes a malware rootkit.

Like... a HUGE gap.

wtf.
Apple has an advertising service, yes. But Apple's revenue primarily comes from hardware. Apple is ergo, a "hardware company" that has additional services. Whereas over 90% of Google's revenue comes from ads, Google is an "advertising company" that also sometimes makes software. (Microsoft, by this definition, is a "software company".)

This is key because companies are going to make decisions based on what keeps them in business. Apple would place it's hardware sales over it's ad business in a heartbeat, whereas Google would abandon Android before it would give up on ads, because that's it's entire business.

My hope is that companies that don't place advertising as a core part of their business can be convinced that there is a market in privacy-oriented products, and that competing on advertising isn't worth it.
This is not a football match, there are bigger and smaller “scores”. Losing the Iraq war for one, easily destroys a generation of wins — just think about the consequences.
I encourage you to read up on The Fair Tax. There are no brackets. There would be a single sales tax rate on all retail purchases. Nothing else. No deductions, no loopholes.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Make Android apps work in Ubuntu

DESCRIPTION:

Make Android apps work in Ubuntu. Allow the size of screen that an app takes up be configurable on a per-app basis. Isolate apps from each other each in their own sandbox.
Not to fault him for lying through his teeth... you gotta defend yourself...

But he is lying. He supported and advertised the software on an unethical hacking site. Thats extremely clear intent, on his part... hes hosed, and he deserves it. Why people here are standing up for unethical hacking is... beyond me...
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I do not empathize with, nor do I agree with, people who wilfully wallow in paranoia and stupidity.

Does that clarify my position sufficiently?
Building Grove – interactive trees that come alive to your breath at Burning Man
I definitely recommend watching the videos. If you are interested I did take notes and you can download them here:

https://leanpub.com/how_to_start_a_startup
Several of those things are inadvisible / effectively illegal for US employers to ask due to anti discrimination laws.
The difference between a junior dev and a senior dev is that you already know it's ugly code and it's going to bite you some time in the future when you write it.
Only if you upgrade regularly. If you upgrade infrequently, rolling releases have a habit of totally hosing your system once you've waited too long and finally pull the trigger.

I've had really good luck with the last few major dist upgrades, for whatever that's worth. About half an hour of downloading and installing packages, a reboot, and poof, you're on the next major release.
That's just nuts. Should have bought a property in Medina back in the day. Would have seen great appreciation by today.
Unfortunately, most people read the headline and then decide whether or not they agree with the article. My girlfriend works at a major online media publication and a lot of their Facebook shares and clicks happen before the user has viewed the story.
The Economist is a bit unique in that their "classic liberalism" editorial viewpoint doesn't neatly fit into America's current tribal division; in America I've heard it called both "right-wing" and "left-wing" as a result.

Such shows a danger of trying to pigeonhole every editorial stance into "left" and "right" categories. It would be nice if we expanded beyond these somewhat artificial opinion collectives.
Feminist Hypocrisy Is the New Trend in Startup Narratives
Right, but RPC allows for, say, updating items 3, 4, 5, 6 in one request, whereas REST dictates that you do it over 4 separate requests. REST can also get messy if you, let's say, update all items with value > 4 as you can't

PATCH /api/items/greaterthan/4 { active: false }

Whereas with RPC you can easily do:

POST /api/items?greaterthan=4 { active: false }

In REST, you would do

POST /api/item_updates/ { greatherthan: 4, active: false }

It comes off as messy to me as I would prefer to keep all endpoints around manipulating a particular model within the same controller rather than having multiple controllers for each model.

I find there's an impedance mismatch between what endpoints my solutions need and what REST dictates. And it requires a lot of acrobatics to map my solution onto the REST way.
Twilio Launches Fax API
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Core

HEADLINE: More robust Wifi

DESCRIPTION: I use Ubunut Core on my laptop. Wifi generally works fine. I don't use network-manager or any GUI tools for managing networks, I just edit wpa_supplicant.conf directly. This works fine, but often after my machine has been idle for a long time the wifi link just goes down. A simple restart of the networking service fixes this. I assume that something is crashing or hanging, but I haven't looked into it in detail. It would be nice if this sort of thing was detected and the service restarted automatically, or this just didn't happen to being with.
And there's currently a big but where you can't get internet when you reconnect to a vpn after disconnecting.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+b...
The action makes it wrong not the code itself. Writing code cannot be evil, it's the user's decision to exploit the code for own selfish gain.

ex. See people using cars or knives or guns as weapons to commit crimes, we don't throw in Toyota or H&K executives in jail. Just because an item was used by someone, the inanimate object by itself do not display intent, intent is something that can only be held in the minds of a person.
Termite clay kiln and pottery
I have been known to fall asleep (no drugs) during routine teeth cleaning.
Brick is very dangerous in an earthquake.
so at least we know it works!
The "mainstream" media (reddit, twitter included) is no longer trusted. The loss was voluntary.

For someone who wants real news, it's left to the reader to consume their news from comment threads, several sources with different flavors of bias (some of them truly opaque), and try and piece together reality from that.

Time will tell whether this current trust drought is an ebb or a permanent change.
It couldnt be "hacker news" .. becuase hacker news has nothing to do with unethical hacking, which is a primary topic of where he advertised and supported his product.

If the product was talked about there, used there, etc, that would be different. The fact that he actively engaged in that community as the author of this software demonstrates pretty clearly which of the "dual use" sides he was intending on cashing in on...
I don't actually understand either example which kinda proves my point ;-)
> you can't dissect him, predict him...

can you probe him?
I heard he has a Lisp.
As a US Midwest renter, it's exactly the same over here, sadly.
Had not seen that before, amazing! Thank you.

The equipment/setup cost Nissan something like $750k. Nvidia PX2 is good enough for Tesla!
You're right that the existence and quantity of news does not necessarily indicate bias, however, bias is found not just in news that is reported but also in what news is reported versus what news is not reported. I personally find this to be where most of the egregious media bias is. For instance, if the media chooses to not cover left-wing initiated violence at a protest, but heavily cover right-wing initiated violence at a protest, that is still bias, even if the reporting about the right-wing violence is accurate.

It's a much more insidious bias too because its harder to point out. You will have to use non-mainstream sources as they are the only ones doing the covering, and the fact that they are not mainstream will be used to hand waive away the complaints.
John Carmack on how he doubled the resolution of Oculus Home on Gear VR
I really can't understand that first quote. Even if you believe you're doing something "highbrow and personally enriching", that doesn't make you a snob.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Make kwrite extensible

DESCRIPTION:

Having used lots of text editors, I always seem to come back to kwrite.

Make it extensible so that you can add commands to it which, when run, invoke an external executable which gets passed:

- the contents of the file being editted
- the contents of the current selection
- the filename of the file being editted

These commands can then be run from the menu or the toolbar.
System management through PowerShell! :-)

(This might not be as much for Ubuntu's team as for PowerShell's team though)
Its easy to say that those who go to college make more, which is true, but those who go to college generally have higher goals and will work for years in suffocating living conditions. Not that they knew of that beforehand (gotta leave that out to get that special debt money), but they adapt. I don't think college creates success in programming, its yourself. In fields such as Medical or physical engineering, I completely agree that schools dedicated to that play a significantly bigger part, though.
+1, and one of the few things I miss from CentOS. It handles domains beautifully. You run one command to join the domain, and for the most part, everything else Just Works.
Not trying to sound snarky here, but that's how he actually pronounces his name.
Do you ever reconsider your no-libraries stance? There have been times where I didn't use a library but eventually learned that the library exists for good reasons. Some time is wasted, but on the other hand, I have a deeper understanding.
Some vehicles use extra fuel to keep the engine warm enough for emissions to be low. A mid-80s vw 1.6 turbo diesel won't ever warm up to running temp if left idling, they are so efficient there is very little waste heat generated.
(The Diesel and Brayton cycles both 'consume' heat as part of the process.) Still, there is a need for high exhaust temps to reduce noxious gasses, so having a recovery method for that would result in some efficiency gains.

This is a study on the application of heat recovery systems on IC engines:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1687814015590314
"The maximum recuperated power
for non-ideal cycle was 1515W at the point where reference
engine power was 26,550W. That improves the
effective engine efficiency by 5.7% from 33.97% to
35.91%."
What you mention here is why I disagree with the fact that you can up OR downvote here without
commenting. A comment should be required before you can upvote or downvote. All for similar reasons
you raise here.
Well, for the first part, just restrict internet access without turning the VPN on. (For me, I can not access any website when the VPN is not active).

The last part of which you wrote is incredibly interesting. I had no idea they could find out the CPU power or the enabled plugins.

Though, to be fair, I think I'd fall in a pretty large pond to match. And either way, that information does not seem very useful (to me) for targetted advertisements.

Thank you for your answer :-)
If smith & wesson promoted their guns in a forum known for plotting murders, do you think they wouldn't be held accountable?

If ford promoted the f150 as being able to drive though 50 people without slowing down, would they not be accountable?

The software isnt the problem, the software has legitimate use... however, it has nefarious use as well, and he promotes that side of it..
"How To Count Past Infinity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88
Wondering when they started doing this. I have a Nexus 5x on Verizon for less than a year and I never got any Verizon apps installed.
as a previous user of the forum in question, I can confirm it's not for the "curious programmer" type of hacker. I realise that the term is ambiguous, but I think that's more due to the "hacker news" type hacker clinging onto an old term after the public understanding of the term has moved onto "hacker = computer criminal". The public at large, and journalists, know what a hacker is - and it's not a VC-driven startup entrepreneur.
Programmable Fax – API for sending and receiving faxes
That's a very convenient and self-congratulatory view of things. Science denialism happens on both the left and the right.

The book Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice, by Alice Dreger gives a good survey of the terrain.