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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Built-in support for installing up-to-date packages

- DESCRIPTION: Currently, `apt install [package]` on LTS Ubuntu will install a package that is up to 24 months out of date (or more if you're not on the latest LTS).

Literally one month ago, using the latest version of Windows 10, I installed Ubuntu for Windows (which installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and `apt-get install nodejs` installed Node 0.10 (from 2013! in 2017!).

I understand users want stability in the core OS, but there's no reason it should be made so difficult to install up-to-date software from elsewhere. `apt` is useless for installing things like `youtube-dl` because old versions of youtube-dl quickly stop being compatible with YouTube.

Ubuntu's current solution to this problem is PPAs, which are very non-ideal because they only work if someone maintains a PPA, but this involves:

1. googling for the software's PPA, 2. finding the PPA, 3. possibly trusting a third-party PPA maintainer, 4. running at least three different commands, which you have to either memorize or re-google

Basically all software's Ubuntu installation instructions are something like "curl this script and pipe to bash" or "build from source" or "install this other package manager, then use the other package manager to install our software", just because it's impossible to install the latest version using Ubuntu's built-in package manager out-of-the-box.

For instance, here's Redis: "Installing it using the package manager of your Linux distribution is somewhat discouraged as usually the available version is not the latest."

I want to be able to do something like `apt install-latest youtube-dl` to get a usable version of youtube-dl, and considering the number of workarounds for this issue I find online, I think a lot of other people have the same want.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: owner of a top-2000 US website
I think that if you looked at the scope of executive orders over time it would be instructive. Teddy Roosevelt executive orders were simple and limited.[1] Modern executive orders have very wide ranging consequences (such as allowing departments to share electronic surveillance without a warrant).

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Theodore_Roosevelt/Exe...

Examples include, "Authorizing Appointment of Translator in Bureau of Insular Affairs Without Examination," "Authorizing Reinstatement of Charles B. Terry as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Examination," "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Commissioners of National Military Parks from Examination," etc.
If c lib is mind-blowing, what about kernel and it's extensions?

For now c is the only thing we have that can be used so widely. Some day we may be able to use rust or something else, but that's future, not present.
Broad agreement in the Rust community that pestering others to RIIR is not okay
Intel VTune has this problem as well. Even their 2017 edition appears to use Gtk2, which AFAICT makes it partially resistant to the usual workarounds for HiDPI scaling.
It says in your link that it's equally likely in general and regional anesthesia. Moreover it says it's more likely in cardiac operations where blood flow into the brain is disturbed. I assume this is very rare then.
> > Ooh - I dunno - If you lend me 1000 engineers, we should be done in about 10 years, cos we're really smart and don't need to implement legacy SCSI support...

Correct, they don't:

> From piecing together information from the online documentation and source code, we can surmise that Fuchsia is a complete operating system for PCs, tablets, and high-end phones.

Their baseline isn't hardware from 40 years ago, it's that of today and only a subset of it. That means that you can forego an enormous amount of things which are all potential sources of problems. The world has evolved a lot, new theories around OS design and security have come and gone.

Just because Linux serves us well doesn't mean we shouldn't explore other options, or that those other options need to support every old data exchange format and hardware port.
Thanks! Yes, if I ever really need general anesthesia, I would really discuss it with the care team and I would still be very anxious. I do think it was the clinic that didn't a good job then since they knew I had asthma and should have planned for it.

For endoscopy, yes it's the stuff of nightmares, being with a tube coming out of your mouth and completely helpless is a very weird feeling. They only spray the throat with a local anesthetic to numb it, it's not really painful but it's the helplessness that is disturbing...
I wonder if they intend to keep Flutter as the primary UI toolkit, or if that was just used out of convenience. If this really ends up being an Android & Chrome OS replacement, and a large portion of code being written for it also ran natively on iOS, that'd be fantastic. Maybe even cool enough to get me to use Dart ;)
The Craigslist way to brand that would be: "Courtesy ambient rain noise for improved sleep environment."
That just lowers where the "poweruser" bar maxes out, it still doesn't encourage users to vote, nor does it really help with the reason for voting (as after I use my 10 votes, what happens when I see clearly off topic or bad content? Do I need to un-vote something good? Do I need to choose to un-vote something "less off topic"? Should I just ignore it?). I have a feeling that it would be gamed as well, comments or posts earlier in the day would be more likely to get votes.

I feel making the voting process easier by creative UX would help, and then weighting can take care of the rest. If a power user votes 100X more than the average, have their votes count 100X less, or some kind of other method to weight them back into normalcy and keep the system from becoming a "most active dictates what the platform is" kind of thing.
Up until the last sentence of the grandparents post, the point was "I think people are unable to challenge stars in their field."

The fact that an alternative perspective that proves simple, effective, and popular in alternative communities is now popularized from stars in the field of deep learning rather than the alternative communities is exactly this.

In fact, the resources available to the stars is much different than what these other communities may have access to such that they may never be able to demonstrate value themselves. It's not very often you have a 720 core machine to run these tests. Resource constrained science exists all over from chemistry, physics, and biotech to computer science. The rich get richer as they say.

However it's also a great instance of solid science to test alternative approaches and I don't mean to take anything away from anyone, but simply to point to a case where that it is extremely difficult for people to challenge stars in the field.
Hey! Sorry we haven't communicated well about this (that's my fault, I'm the new-ish CEO at Fog Creek). I'll write a full blog post about this, but here's the story:

* We are moving to a paid model for Kiln overall; it's gotten a bit more expensive to run the service, especially as it's the last real Mercurial host, and we wanted to do right by our paying customers.

* While getting ready for the transition, we screwed up with a few users in handling people who got free Kiln accounts with FogBugz. It sounds like you fall into that group, and you should have heard from our support team with an update to correct this. I'm sorry we got it wrong and we'll make sure you get access back if that's the case.

* We are thinking through how to better explain the way our tools like FogBugz and Kiln work together, so we've started marketing Kiln as "Dev Hub" because it's easier for people to understand if they're familiar with other version control tools.

We aren't going to kill of Kiln, what we're working to do right now is make sure it's a stable and sustainable business, and then based on what our customers tell us, we'll be deciding how much to invest in modernizing and expanding the platform.

Sorry that we didn't clearly communicate this in advance — I'll make sure that doesn't happen again for these kinds of changes.
>You want Ubuntu to pick the best laptop for Australia and Iceland?

What on earth /are/ you talking about? Laptops are laptops. With the exception of the international space station, they work the same everywhere.

The best laptop for Australia and Iceland is the same laptop that is the best laptop for the USA, and the XPS is pretty up there wherever you live.

What I'm saying is that there's a lot of value in picking something that /isn't/ the best if the logistics and legalities of shipping it globally are better.
It's a bug because it actually works in OpenZFS. It's suppose to work, there's commands for it in the ZFS tools. Linux is the only platform where this doesn't work.

Also ignoring that virtualization exists would be a little silly for a modern filesystem. There's features of ZFS that of cause doesn't make sense on virtualized hardware, but things like snapshotting and checksumming are still nice to have.
He is a very bad CEO if he can't understand that a 5% reduction in latency results in $X of extra revenue by himself¹.

If an engineer can articulate his companies business cases better than him, MS board would better put that engineer as CEO.

1 - Even if "by himself" here means just taking the initiative to ask somebody
Are there enough clues to figure out if this is intended to eventually displace Android, ChromeOS, the Ubuntu distribution most googlers use on their company machines, or the Linux they run their data centers?

As far as I know, Google hasn't telegraphed the purpose of it. I can't tell if it's targeted at all, none, or some of the above.
The implication from OP is that those aren't "real applications". They are merely following in AWS footsteps ("hey, we had to build this anyway...maybe there's a 3rd party market for it").
This is a silly reason. How is this any different to engineers with detailed LinkedIn profiles. Everyone self markets.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Better touchpad gestures out of the box

- DESCRIPTION: I recently got my first ultrabook. I used Windows on it for the first few weeks before installing Ubuntu. The touchpad gestures were very useful for certain activities such as minimizing/maximizing and switching between windows. It seems that Ubuntu has a very limited set of gestures, and after a couple months I still feel like my productivity is held back due to the relative difficulty of switching among windows.

- ROLE: Full-time student
The content of the orders are probably just as important as the number. If not more so. But it's hard to measure the relevant stats in an objective way that satisfies both sides.
FLAVOR: All
HEADLINE: only 1 init system
DESCRIPTION:
Having Sysvinit, upstart, and systemd all supported is confusing and difficult to manage. Given the controversy of systemd I can see being able to choose between Sysvinit and systemd for a system, but having both at the same time is problematic.
People that question the existence of Fuchsia need only remember why Chrome was created. A lot of people thought Google was wasting their time by building a browser, including Eric Schmidt, and look how that turned out. Now, I'm not saying that Fuchsia will have the same success as Chrome, but it's clear that they think that having an OS that they can control the direction of is important to them.
Are you sure? It seems like Android 6.0 and up has features to allow carriers to deploy code to devices with their SIM cards: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/config/carrier.html

I am honestly unsure of the limits on this feature.
No one has been ragging on Unity.... They should be. Unity is still garbage. Ruined Ubuntu for me after about 10 years of usage... Still never returning because Unity is such a resource hog, so non-standard in its interface, and the fact that teaching someone Unity is a useless skill.

We used Ubuntu for years to teach people how to use a computer for the first time: we gave them old PC's with Ubuntu installed. Unity made this impossible. It was too slow for the old machines, too hard to figure out for the new users, and too unfriendly for experienced users to tolerate.

Hate hate hate hate Unity. Always will. Went to Mint because of it. Even installing another windowing system was a huge pain in the ass, because first, you had to install Unity and go to Synaptic and install an old Gnome. This took HOURS because Unity was so freaking SLOW!

I dunno, maybe you fixed these things, but Unity ended my relationship with Ubuntu after years of advocating for it to everyone I knew.
I'd definitely dedicate it to world travel. While it might not be expensive, it's challenging to go far away across many time zones while working even as a contractor. Perhaps consider a round the world ticket.
Yep. Why do we need libraries? We should instead fund the military with billions of dollars because that's how we make this country great.
You're being downvoted but there is some truth to this.

For example, I inherited a relatively poorly performing service with a per-user limit set to 60 req/min. As the service operator, I have the choice of setting either a rate limit of 60 req/min or 1 req/sec. The former (60/min) leaves you open to per-user spikes of up to 60 req/sec. This is a real risk: 10 users together _could_ produce a spike of 600 req/sec.

Still, we went with the per-minute rate limit. Why? Those multi-user bursts are fairly improbable (most of our users were well-behaving) and queueing let us manage these isolated spikes gracefully. The per-minute rate limit is a bit more flexible from a user perspective (reward the good users) and it still combats the problem of sustained heavy load on the service, which is the true danger (stop/limit the "bad" users).
Happens... Certain roles match well with "general" MBA learning experiences. However, I see many fail by not specializing with their MBA experiences. Each year something like 100K new MBAs join the workforce.
Gnome's Night Light works great with Wayland.

(This doesn't help on Unity/Mir of course... just an option)
Isn't this just the "hacker house" thing all over again, except using a corporation instead of listing on Airbnb?

People straight out of college who have friends already live three, four, five people to a one to three bedroom apartment in SF because of the insane housing prices, even when they're making 105k/year. Heck, when I went to take a tour of one luxury apartment building and told them that I'd maybe come back if I could find roommates so I could afford it, the leasing agent called me that afternoon with a lead on a prospective roommate that worked at the same company. (To them, it's just closing another sale...)
Ubuntu tends to have a list of hardware[1] that plays well with it. From my personal experience, I've had good luck with Thinkpads and Dell precisions.

[1] https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/
My understanding is that, as a multi-level marketing scheme, they are doing enough to be considered a legal entity as opposed to a pyramid scheme (which is what they are).
Exactly. Let's avoid the sunk-cost fallacy.
In general, as someone who consulted on the NYT front page, and several other higher profile news products in 2009 on...

The major change is simply economic: that the product stopped being the publication and started being the article. The public turning point for this granularization was when Gawker decided to play per click in March 2008. As this motivation was generally adopted industry wide, it separated a writers incentives from that of a the publication as a product.

We no longer had a quality bar set by brands, and instead a race to the bottom set by individual writers competition. You can see it everything from click-bait headlines to inflamatory articles, all the way to its final form: Fake news written only for views at the price of all other qualities.
Introducing Google Wind
SECONDED!
Rochester is one of those northeastern cities that destroyed its own downtown neighborhoods for the sake of building a moat of highways around the city center. As a visitor, it was depressing how detached the city center was from anything, and how pedestrian-unfriendly and relatively dead the streets were, filled with large office buildings, surface parking lots, and not much else. It’s a “great driving city” because there’s more empty road space than anyone knows what to do with. Enormous waste of space, infrastructure money, and human potential.

The pictures from before the 1950s vs. after are stark. http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/
> market glut of dense, expensive housing. Since the beginning of 2015, nearly 22,000 units have been built or approved in San Francisco (excluding the massive Candlestick Point development). Of these, 19,500—89 percent—are “above moderate,” meaning they can likely only be afforded by individuals making more than $90,000 a year. “We are in the midst of the biggest apartment-building boom since World War II,” says Patrick Carlisle, chief market analyst at the Paragon Real Estate Group.

The author insinuating that enough housing has already been built, or that building doesn't bring rents down, is pretty rage-inducing.

How many new people have started seeking housing in San Francisco since 2015? I'm going to guess it's more like 200,000.
That does seem to be the current model for fast recharges. It's not out of the question, but these are going to be extremely big batteries and the planes, batteries, and auxiliary equipment need to be designed for it up front. The thing with planes is that design is extremely expensive and design costs are expected to be amortized over a long lifecycle, which means that a technical constraint today could end up being very costly if the constraint goes away in the near future.

Wright Electric likely knows all this and is working on it...a partnership with a low cost airline would surely inform them of what is needed for success. I'm just complaining that the article is not very substantive.
Words can hurt you know ... :) https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest/graphs/contributors?fr...

It uses postgrest but not postgraphql, actually not even the graphql-js reference implementation
>Maybe men should be encouraging women to compete more aggressively on salary?

To bring up the average salary? Does that matter to any individual?
The question that was asked was "what laws is the UK unable to implement because of the EU".

And I gave an example. The EU prevents the UK from making this law. And if the UK wants to pass this law (which it does!!!), then it needs to leave the EU.

This is a perfectly valid reason for leaving the EU. Because the EU doesn't let you do this thing that you want to do.
What I see is some people dont like foolish words on a screen so they want to clamp down on open discourse to control dialogue because in their opinion its fruitless or mean or whatever they feel.

Some silly troll spamming idiotic statements is not nearly the threat that controlling dialogue on the net and deciding what is trolling and what isnt.

Socrates would be labeled a troll these days if he was on social media.
Yeah, this is incredibly common, even in Mountain View. Not just true in luxury rentals with low occupancy, but also in house shares.

However, I still don't quite understand restricted kitchen access and shared living rooms.
It can't do that without the agreement of the states though. Directives are created at the direction of the European Council, made up of the heads of state of every EU member state.

US states don't have veto powers over federal legislation, but EU states do. Hence Britain never joined the Schengen Agreement and kept its own currency. We had the best of both worlds and threw it away.
This one is going to take a little bit of time, maybe even a hardware generation. Intel is working on their solution (Intel GVT), AMD's new Vega is supposed to support SR-IOV (which will require fixing bugs in mainboards and BIOSes), and Nvidia is still fighting against virtualization of the Geforge line.
I have been working on something similar last night. Hack it and make some noise. No strings attached, kill it once you think its obsolete.

https://github.com/shashanksurya/HaughtyDog
> Linux essentially sucked all the air out of the UNIX development space by killing off all the commercial UNIXes.

Only because they have done a really good job.
I suppose I haven't been to many large main branch libraries, but the BPL main branch is amazing to me. The building itself is incredible but the services they provide are top notch.

It hosts great scheduled talks/discussions (for instance on Tuesday Neil Gaiman will be there for an on-stage interview).

The quiet workspaces are great places to get work done, and something about the architecture/interior/history really helps keep one motivated while there.

Maybe this is normal for every state but any resident of MA is eligible to get a library card. It's worth it for the digital rentals alone.

They also host free tours of the building, which I haven't done yet but have been meaning to.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Make network-manager robust

DESCRIPTION:
I've got a shortcut to:

`sudo service network-manager restart`

I'm looking for a reason to delete this shortcut. Currently I use it every day or so when wireless drops out, and quite often multiple times a day.

ROLE/AFFILIATION: A Data Scientist who uses ubuntu desktop and champions Ubuntu server whenever possible.
Insights from StatusPage into the S3 outage
America’s Up and Coming Tech Boom Cities
Great comment. Relatedly, we might see a third party candidate on the debate stage in 2020, for the first time since Ross Perot. The FEC/CPD was successfully sued (after many attempts) regarding the polling threshold required to be invited to the debates.

Edit:
Citation: http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/02/libertarian-party-gets-vic...
interesting, I think many that go down the 'highly relevant ad' path end up doing affiliate marketing path taking a cut of sales driven by your site's click throughs. however, when I clicked on the ads on the right side, it's more of just a product display without an e-commerce component. Are you avoiding this tactic to make sure your content is aligned with the reader or some other reason?
I agree. It seems to me that the biggest difference is the extent to which the average internet user gets his content from other internet users (reddit, facebook, twitter, etc) instead of designated content creators with reputations to uphold.
A few days ago somebody posted a link to some very old UNIX documentation from the early 70s. Something that struck me was how similar it was to modern UNIX systems. A lot of abstractions underpinning Linux, the BSDs, and OSX have not changed much in the 45 years since UNIX V1 was developed. It wouldn't hurt to take a fresh look at things.

Your argument could have been used against almost every project Google's worked on. Email, search, Go, phones, Chrome, maps, etc. all had established proprietary and open source competitors.

It might be expensive, but it's cheaper, more practical, and more likely to succeed than something like self-driving cars or Google Glass.
Why Linux kernel can support lots of CPU architectures in mainline tree but somehow requires to make a fork for each handset made by all these home appliance manufacturers? If you let all these vacuum cleaner companies to fork Fuschia, they'll fork it and put their "unique features" right into microkernel.
The first people who came to America
Thanks for this link. Not done yet, but it's outstanding so far.
Cost of Living, Traffic Driving Millennials Out of Bay Area: Study
Google has less power than you might imagine here...

Only "desirable" phones can set rules about what the carrier can and cannot do. Today, thats the iPhone only.

Unless customers will leave the network if it does not stock a particular model of phone, then the network can insist the phone manufacturer install crapware, and until the manufacturer agrees, that model won't be sold.