skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Better Documentation

DESCRIPTION:
Googling up an issue usually produces results for Lemurs and such. AskUbuntu is a step in the right direction, but it needs some (more?) employees committed to improving it. Doing so would create a virtuous cycle where there is an incentive to improve documentation in order to reduce costs (maybe by reducing the relevance of cruft).

It's o.k. if the starting point is sometimes RTM because at least it is a starting point and following up on the resultant "huh?"s would also align cost incentives toward removing the rough edges.

HEADLINE: Get out and walk around.

DESCRIPTION: This audience is more likely to be inside the Linux bubble than the people who really need improvements. Most people don't care that much about battery performance and that's why they are happy with cheap laptops and desktops. Most people don't care about 4k screens and that's why they buy cheap laptops and monitors. Most people don't care about Wayland v X11 or lightDM v whatever.

Good luck.
Interesting. Were you a recent grad? Were you based in the US?
This is false. A lack of trust will not hurt google one bit since there is no meaningful competition for their search engine and the vast majority of their revenue comes from search ads.

Edit: This may be an unpopular conclusion but it based on facts.

https://www.cnet.com/news/people-trust-nsa-more-than-google-...
I wouldn't necessarily explain this by properties of the individual middle manager. Middle management frequently had very little decision making power and it's their job to represent "the company's" decisions to their reports. In many organizations they are also heavily discouraged from taking any risks and frequently function as scape goats for bad decisions higher ups made. So even if someone in middle management seems bad at making decisions it might not be because they don't have a strong opinion but because they aren't sure if it clashes with what their boss wants and are unsure how far they can push it. They also might be turn to maybe do what they think is the wrong thing because they know it will be accepted by the organization. They also might seem to be slow or hesitant making decisions when it's in fact someone above them they are waiting for. Middle management is easily blamed, but they are also the ones who get to feel most when an organization is dysfunctional because they sit between the people who make the real decisions and between the people who are doing the ground work.
You go for the network either regional or national. You can read the 30m MBA for the other stuff.
Here is another example: "A Sea of Charter Schools in Detroit Leaves Students Adrift" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/for-detroits-children-...

According to NYT: "half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit’s traditional public schools."

According to data from the cited study: Half the charters perform significantly better, around half no significant difference, a small percentage (1% in reading, 7% in math) perform significantly worse.

See: https://jaypgreene.com/2016/06/29/nyt-hatchet-job-on-charter...
I saw the Pizza gate content rise up from seemingly out of nowhere. Thing is though, the core of it, without making any specific accusations is there is really weird stuff going on in those emails from wikileaks dump. Strange coded language when they are talking about kids and pizza. And that pizza restaurant had some really strange things posted on their social media too. (Strange enough that they would later delete it.)

After looking long enough at it, basically PizzaGate warrants just as much suspicion for me as any JFK theory at this point. I believe there's something to it. There is a mountain of little details that make it impossible to flat out deny it, I just don't go as far as levying accusations at people withouth knowing facts. Others have accused people w/o evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and I think that's wrong. I think the police should be interested in Pizza Gate, and I think a few of them are. But again I don't go further than that.

What people think bubbled over Pizza Gate was that guy with the gun who went in the restaurant. But actually that smelled like a hoax to me. It just seemed wildly incomplete and a convenient way to say "See what fake news does!" And that guy had a strange background with him, and the media chose NOT to go too deep into his story either. It was like they just needed that for their narative.
The documentary they linked to about the Australian recession during the Hawke-Keating years is very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM35CXyPh7M

I don't know much about Aussie politics but I found it interesting as someone who reads a lot about economics.

The 80s/90s were a very interesting time for capitalism as globalism was just beginning and the large role of the state in the economy was being solidified.
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In case you're not aware, the design you're proposing is generally called "RPC" (remote procedure call). In many ways, it's much more intuitive, but there are tradeoffs. This article might make interesting reading: http://etherealbits.com/2012/12/debunking-the-myths-of-rpc-r....
There's nothing stopping you from learning everything on your own. BUT you miss out on the MBA network. When you're forced to spend 2 years with a cohort of 75-100 people, you develop a close-knit bond when you spend most of your time eating, drinking, studying (and sometimes sleeping) with these people. If I want a job at a company that one of my MBA classmates works at, an interview is literally one phone call away.
It's very unlikely that Verizon's business will suffer, given their membership in the internet
oligopoly [1]. Also, in regards to your other point -- what's stopping Verizon from just changing
their business model? The fact Google offers free services is irrelevant.

Verizon could do this and "offer" faster internet, claiming this tracking is what enables everyone
to have faster internet for "free." There's a cost to everything -- including giving away your
information. If there was no cost, then Google and company wouldn't want it. The fact that they're
able to make money from it implies there's value, and if you're giving away value, it must be
costing you. It's just not dollars.

I still think you shouldn't let anyone spy on you, free or not. What Verizon is doing is just the
same as them raising the price of their service, except worse, because once they have your data the
returns on it will only compound.

[1] http://www.verizon.com/about/news/dispelling-the-myth-of-a-t...
> I have not checked, are there issues missing from amdgpu? You would need to test, and preferably test with the AMDGPU PRO driver distribution from AMD (has the very latest support that may take a bit of time to make it to the upstream projects).

I don't know. AMDGPU requires an older version of the kernel, so I'd have to downgrade from 16.10 just to try it out.
The EU will not pass the truck-related law, because it is not how law works in the EU.

In the US (common law) high-profile cases and precedents are the source of the law. This brings more power to the people, but also makes the legal system infinitely more complicated.

In the EU, we have civil law, which relies on first principles and lawmakers authority to interpret existing laws, with much less attention given to individual cases. This simplifies the law and filters away some insane legal tests like this one, at the cost of giving more legal power to the government and less to the people.

Both systems have their pros and cons, of course.
Intel's 10nm Process Node, a 2.7x transistor density improvement
hi Dustin,

1.FLAVOR: desktop
HEADLINE: better installer - I'm not talking about the UI.
DESCRIPTION: The Ubuntu installer is just refusing to deal with UEFI, smartboot, NVME, Raid and the various combos thereof. Please look at /r/dell or anywhere people are talking about XPS - which has the newer NVME ssd in raid mode (set in the bios). Ubuntu's installers are just not able to deal with this in a smart way.
Yes I can potentially figure that out... or use Fedora, whose installer actually showed me a disk (Ubuntu 16.04 did not even indicate a disk present).

2. Flavor: desktop
HEADLINE: First class support for Gnome
DESCRIPTION: yes, I know you guys do Unity. But Gnome + Wayland is kind of a standard as well... and a lot of other distros use this combo. I'm not asking you to move away from Unity, but atleast let Gnome+wayland have first class community support.

3. Flavor: Desktop, server, core
HEADLINE: Better display defaults for apt.
DESCRIPTION:I have to set "Aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c->%a%M %p #%v%V";" to get a reasonable display of information in apt. Could you please do something about this ?

4. Flavor: Desktop
HEADLINE: Suspend on low power
DESCRIPTION: Yes, I have heard every variation of argument here. I have participated in all the bugs. Here's my POV: until Linux as a whole can give me out-of-the-box hibernate support, for god's sake give me suspend on low power. This is insane - it is 2017. I should not be losing work when I can just close my lid, suspend and rush to the nearest outlet.
Yes, my experience is similar. A typical task will take at least 3 or 4 pomodoro.

There are few important aspects that contribute to being able to continue easily:
- you know the Pomodoro ends at a specific time, so you can properly close, make notes, etc.
- because you stop 'in the middle' you actually feel eager to get back to it. (contrary to normal breaks where you probably stopped because you didn't feel like working anymore)

In general I believe it works because you rely less on flow. Flow is great, but it also comes and goes. If you can easily get into your flow and stay there for hours, you probably don't need this, but for those weeks when it doesn't come naturally, this can really work.
John Sculley is a marketer not an engineer, but is probably one of the least bad ones.
JdeBP, you're awesome. Thanks for the analysis.
Is that for Ubuntu Core or Ubuntu Desktop?
>...the corporate bought out main stream media

Why is that you think a huge organization of professional journalists (a profession with an independent ethics code and enforcing body) is easier to "buy out" than a handful of white dudes blogging on the internet?
Just recently followed Dan's advice from an early comment of his [1]. Turned out being easier than other solutions to implement anyway. It's doing exactly what I need now, and not more. And it forces you to be very aware of this workflow. I hope I have the need to add the "simple additions" later.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161235
I've entertained the idea on multiple occasions that there might be a way to introduce good actors which use traffic calming driving techniques onto the road with the purpose of helping to regulate the flow of traffic. This assumes that there is a way to influence traffic on a large scale by way of a few good drivers.
This is pretty obvious stuff. People have a limited tolerance for daily work commute of a max one hour each way, whether they're driving 70mph from one suburb to another, or walking from their village to the fields, or hunting and gathering in the woods.
The part that you're missing is that HN is not just for tech news, and never has been.
I'm British and I agree with everything he said.

There is a very real pro-Monarchy, post-Empire resentment of anything not British among a large section of the British people. They might not say it out loud, but it's clear in the things they say.
FOX News literally circulates a memo, every day, that guides its treatment of political subjects.

That they have a primary goal of pushing an agenda is made manifest by FOX's abrupt termination of coverage of a meeting between President Obama and the GOP when it began to show Obama in a sympathetic light. Name one example of another mainstream media outlet being this institutionally cynical.

https://mediamatters.org/research/2010/01/30/fox-cuts-away-f...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kja25r/the-daily-show-with-jon...
Ask how you qualify for a potential raise your in 2nd year, understand their standards.

Also, don't limit this to just a monetary discussion (ask for additional PTO, Perks, etc...) On this subject Stuart Diamond is brilliant > https://youtu.be/liCOqUQzpQs
A reasonable set of applications that will help to switch from OSX
The first time I heard the word 'globalist' was on Alex Jones' radio in ~2000. He was just as nutty then, so this sure would be a long con.
Do they separate the fairing straight after getting out of the atmosphere, before the circularizing burn? That's Interesting, for some reason I had supposed that they did it right before releasing the cargo.
But for the front office, networking _is_ the job :)
Finance I, II, III. Accounting I, II, III. Corporate Strategy. Emerging Markets. Micro/Macro Economics. Business Acting. Marketing Strategy. Ops Research.
Hello,

1. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: pinch to zoom with touchpads
DESCRIPTION: pinch to zoom with touchpad is convenient and available on most platforms. It would be nice to have it on Ubuntu and other distributions, too. It is already available with touchscreen on some applications but not at all on touchpads.

2. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Pixel-perfect scrolling everywhere by default.
DESCRIPTION: Pixel-perfect scrolling makes it more easier to read long texts.

3. FLAVOR: all
HEADLINE: Parallelize apt / dpkg
DESCRIPTION: Installation of packages requires downloading, unkpacking, configuring. Using apt(-get), one cannot install two or more things in parallel. Package downloads could be done even if an installation is already ongoing and requests to install packages could be added to the current installation process instead of rejecting them because there is already an installation running (with possibly priority handling).

4. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: One-click add ppa + install app
DESCRIPTION: It should be easy for users to install applications that are not in the repository. One click to add a ppa and install an application (with any security warning that applies) would be a good step toward this.

5. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Stability when resuming from suspend
DESCRIPTION: With too many laptops, resuming from suspend is unreliable and may hang.

6. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Higher maximum volume level
DESCRIPTION: One thing that is consistent across many laptop, maximum sound is too quiet for integrated speakers.

7. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Make Emoji input and display easy and here by default
DESCRIPTION: More and more people like and use emojis. A Ubuntu should handle that correctly.

8. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Show battery usage per application and alert when an application is eating battery (unexpectedly)
DESCRIPTION: sometimes, a process uses too much battery and has time to waste energy before noticed.

9. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Remote control without configuration
DESCRIPTION: it would be nice to be able to help a novice Ubuntu user remotely, without making him / her install and configure anything, even if they are using a public wifi, with low latency (with a possibility to take control with an ssh-like method).

10. FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Bring atomic snapshots to the common user
DESCRIPTION: Btrfs and ZFS provide atomic snapshots that can be used to go back in time in case something bad happened. Ubuntu could bring this functionality to the user by making it possible to cancel an update or a configuration, and to protect user's home directory from human mistakes by periodically making snapshots.This would be a useful complement to regular backups.

ROLE/AFFILIATION: Kubuntu Desktop user
Yup. Unless I mis-hit in default, GNOME does this.
The most interesting thing about MBA's is it's approval focused not success focused. If you can convince a fortune 500 company to pick you as their CEO you have already won even if the company fails because you run it into the ground.

So, yes the language changes as you go up. But, so does what it means to fail.
For me, "vim-full" would be a hard requirement.

The minimal vim is so bad in terms of usability that makes it a pain to use even for advanced users. Especially, when you complete the installation and then need to do some text editing before you manage to get the network up ;-'(.
Ubuntu mounts my EFI partition as /boot.
Some would say it's a feature, not a bug.
Only if you catch it in time, before you've completely run out space. `apt autoremove` will crash if there is not enough space on the disk.
I still remember the first time I was in a computer lab and I leaned too far away from my computer and my headphones that were blaring music popped out... and the whole room WASN'T subjected to the same loud music. And I opened up the Kubuntu audio controls and plugged in my headphones and the volume slider suddenly jumped up, then I unplugged again and it muted again. "Woah."

I remember trying it on whatever Windows computers were in the lab just to make sure I wasn't crazy and that this wasn't there all along, and sure enough, they kept the same volume no matter whether the headphones were plugged in or not.

One of the first PulseAudio victories I remember, at a time when I vaguely recall that it was a newcomer and people were really pissed at PulseAudio's bugs and recommending just straight ALSA instead.
> Most of the degree is a waste ...

a major part of the mission of any college is its ability to pick a curriculum that actually has value for the student's life and career - topics whose study will be truly worthwhile.

colleges are saying "of all the topics you might study, out of the vast ocean of knowledge which a person could not hope to master in ten lifetimes, we have selected a manageable but critical/valuable/useful subset."

based on your comment and many others, it seems colleges are failing at that part of the mission. it seems the world is simply changing too fast and most colleges fail to keep up.
Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server

Headline: Change resolution for VNC connections when running Headless

Description: There are no simple ways to do this. Even moderately versed in Linux, I cannot easily change the resolution without driver hacks that typically do not work.
Unfortunately I am well aware of the cognitive dissonance. Many voters might also be single issue voters as well.

I don't take it as snark, your point is very valid. And to be sure, I'm not immune from biases. That said, the issue I did take with your point is that generalized it to all issues, then applied it to me, while I am merely talking about understanding of a single issue. A rather technical issue that American voters of all parties probably don't understand in depth. Again, the reason I focused on Republican voters in my comments is because it was primarily Republican politicians who voted for this measure.
For the lulz?
I've always resorted to xrander and can get the screen looking pretty good. Though I really think something like this should just work.
> My experience of anyone who thinks of themselves as "European" or a supporter of the EU is actually, when the surface is scratched, extremely angry and vicious.

Well that's a delightfully insulting, sweeping and utterly untrue generalisation.

Whatever makes you feel validated in your choices though I guess. It's easier to assume your opponents are just full of hate and anger instead of trying to understand that they are people with actual thoughts and concerns that are opposed to yours.
Verizon is very big in my town, but I pay $35/month for less-than-wonderful Virgin Mobile. Can't get a signal in the office but it's not worth +$85/month more to me.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for Customer Success?
What are the tools that companies use to stay on top of customer success.
No, but it's the same as a CS student taking one class on operating systems, machine learning, android development, etc. You won't be an expert after one or two courses, but you develop a foundation level of understanding. As a CEO, you'll be in meetings with accountants, marketers, engineers, recruiters, lawyers, etc. Knowing the common vocabulary helps you avoid wasting unnecessary time asking questions about the core concepts.
Totally agree on this. I can video and audio chat with my grandma since apps like WeChat are designed for illiterate usage. Photos of participants, easy audio button, inline small videos.
Did you read the article? It's not about building small (as in low floor area) apartments, but small apartment buildings. Apartment buildings which are 3-4 stories high, and provide the "missing middle" between high density apartments you find in the middle of cities and the single family homes that make up urban sprawl.
Not to mention the best one for code coverage. When junior devs ask me for advice regarding increasing code coverage, I tell them instead of writing more tests, how about writing less code? Our boss really liked that one.
How do they know I'm downloading anything illegal if the traffic is encrypted?
Previous bouts of automation most certainly did harm many workers. That other workers eventually got jobs and a higher standard of living didn't help many of the people who lost positions and status.

When this happens on a small scale, it's often possible to relocate in a big country like the US. When this sort of industrial shift happens simultaneously across the geographic range where migration has low friction, workers whose cognitive ability or general flexibility is inadequate to retraining are well and truly screwed.
What you're referring to are called "80% lowers" and they're the part of an AR-15 rifle that contain the serial number. AR-15s come in a lot of parts, so the "lower" is considered the actual gun that has a serial number and requires a license. So manufacturers are selling machined lowers that are 80% complete, considering this as just a piece of metal, not a gun. The ATF has already raided at least one maker of these parts and taken their customer list.

Personally I think it's a grey area. At what point do you go from "it's a bunch of metal, screws, and springs" to "firearm". It's the sand hill paradox. And if you want to stay out of jail, stay away from these. All it takes is a zealous DA who decides it's a violation of federal fireams law and suddenly your life is hell.
I think Google removed it from the Chrome Web Store recently. Bummer.
Nix package manager: Perl dependency removed
It isn't a freedom of speech issue. Free speech doesn't cover using words to commit a crime. Saying "handover the cash or I'll slit your throat" is still robbery.

The law handles this fairly well in theory. You are only responsible for aiding a crime if you acted to assist the crime with the required mental state. The required mental state for most crimes is recklessness.

So you can sell someone a gun but you can't sell someone a gun if they say "I'm going to murder my wife."

Doing something totally legal to assist a crime is a crime if you were acting intentionally to assist the crime. You can be charged for giving the Gettysburg Address if the point was to get people in one place to bomb it.

Here the FBI is wrong. As of now, there is no evidence he intended to assist in these crimes.

But if you created some software designed to hack a company you hated and then released it widely hoping that someone would use it? That is a crime.
The tyranny of the timesheet
This is a completely unsurprising result.

My happiness is strongly correlated with my commute time NOT the speed at which I'm driving.

We keep establishing the second part of human nature, for instance better insulation resulted in bigger homes, not energy savings[1]

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/09/as-american-...