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- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]

- HEADLINE: Join Wayland

- DESCRIPTION: Instead of reinventing the wheel with Unity8/Mir, please join Wayland development and maybe join forces with Linux Mint and switch from Unity to Cinnamon or MATE, with Flatpak supports for desktop apps.
Well I mean duh, she built a plane, went to MIT, and she's a woman. Of course she's the next Einstein.
> Most current and future audio DAWs and apps are going the down the multi-touch route (Bitwig, Presonus Studio One, etc).

Multitouch on Ubuntu is not fantastic, but it does work. I can use Bitwig without trouble on my touchscreen laptop.

The only major problem I've run into is that I can't figure out how to control the multitouch gestures, and some of them conflict with multitouch gestures that the DAW needs (for instance, making a three-finger chord on the on-screen keyboard).
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If I were writing this, I would try to get it into as many hands as possible, and do some sort of backfeeding of data to generate "real" profiles of user activities, then send back down suitably randomized profiles of other real users that you use for some period of time.

It's important to conceive of this as an arms race, and I think one of the underappreciated things about arms races is that if you successfully anticipate the next three things your opponent will do and counter them, you can end up discouraging them from even fighting in the arms race. I don't know how random the page visits are, but if they are random in, well, almost any sense, eventually they will be something the trackers can filter out. "Well, this person shows a really strong signal for football, and weak signals for anime, robotics, accounting, and a hundred other things. Show them the football ads." Even today that wouldn't necessarily pose much of a challenge.

By contrast, if you get profiles from volunteers that are real, and then start mixing them up so that everybody downloading this extension shows ten or fifty equally strong signals of interest, of which only one is real, that'll scramble the data being collected something fierce, and require the data collectors to jump straight to very sophisticated teasing out of what's really true, which initially won't even be worth it until a lot more people are using this stuff. There's a lot of elaborations you can think of from there (temporal correlations, i.e., college basketball interest should be spiking now, vs. football), etc.

I have no idea what this extension is doing, because I can't seem to find any data about what it is doing, so maybe it's doing some of this stuff, but I expect they'd be talking about at least the data they'll need to collect to make this really work if it was going to work this way, so I assume without proof that it is not this.

In general, it's worth pointing out that a lot of systems can't be fooled by uniformly random data, because all real-world systems already have to be able to filter that out because all real-world systems experience noise, of which at least a significant component is probably more-or-less uniformly random. If you really want to scramble a system you need to be more clever.
Otherwise a super good tele-lens with tracking capabilities?
This is an age old counter intelligence tactic.

Plant a loud, incoherent, emotionally charged agent posing as a supporter for something you don't like in order to discredit their unwitting supporters.

Not asserting Alex Jones is doing this, rather that this type of tactic is not uncommonly used.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: High quality Bluetooth sound by default

DESCRIPTION: Tried bluetooth sound in Ubuntu 16.04 for the first time yesterday and the sound was horrible! Apparently I need to do some configuration to get it working properly. Not needed on android. Soundblaster Jam headset.

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Improved battery performance

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: More stable and polished desktop

DESCRIPTION: Yesterday a window frame in fullscreen got stuck. Meaning I had a cross in the top left corner no matter what I did.

FLAVOR: Ubuntu ALL
HEADLINE: Node.js package updated to latest Stable version

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: CTRL + ALT + L no longer locks the screen, replaced with SUPER + L

DESCRIPTION: CTRL + ALT + L is "format code" in intellij. SUPER + L locks screen in WIN. I always have to modify this...
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Shared Electron

- DESCRIPTION: With the rise of JavaScript applications running on top of electron, it would be nice to have an electron package to depend on (much like Android WebView). This way not every Electron app weights over 50mb.
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They don't even mention what her PhD research is about or what has led them to believe that said research is as revolutionary as Einstein's work.
We're talking ISPs here, not state actors. If an individual catches the full attention of the NSA, there's not all that much they can do to defend their privacy.
In other words: integrate purge-old-kernels

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/purge-old-ke...

Maybe add some stats to know which kernels have booted successfully, so one knows which old ones can be safely deleted, and keep the last 1 or 2 good ones (not always the latest!).
“Extreme right”?

Some proportionality would be good. “Extreme” when used in the context of political ideology implies some form of totalitarianism; i.e., Nazism, Fascism (extreme right), Stalinism, Maoism (extreme left).

The WSJ, from the little of it I read, tends to adopt generally classical liberal or libertarian positions; i.e, moderately right-leaning economically, moderately liberal on social issues, generally in favour of more liberty across the board, and thus opposed to authoritarianism.

There's a valid debate to be had about the merits of these positions, but to describe the WSJ as “extreme right” does an injustice to the many who've suffered and died – and who continue to do so to this day – due to genuinely extreme political ideologies.
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No, it's completely different. Sandbagging a deposition and playing stupid games with discovery is almost standard practice. Judges hate it, opposing counsel complains bitterly, but in a pretrial civil case, out of sight of a jury, just about everyone does that on both sides.

Pleading the 5th is rather extraordinary in a civil business dispute and is not a normal tactic when you have a strong defense. It immediately raises a stink of crime for everyone concerned, and can certainly spook shareholders/investors.
And we know that the hardware is more than capable enough since the XPS touchpads conform to Microsoft's "precision trackpad" spec.
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Cheers! I'll check this out.
That is an awesome idea - a browser that is also a node in a search engine; it would be possible to build an experimental search engine then without a £40 million + investment to even get started.
There have been some good answers but it is also an issue of cost. Building a 3 story apartment building requires a much larger capital outlay. For a trailer park, all you have to do is run utilities over open ground. You can make a lot of money here vs the investment level with almost no recurring costs. If you have apartments, a lot of your profits for a unit each year have to be reinvested in new carpeting, paint, repairs, etc.
You also need to hire people to manage and show the apartment to renters again increasing your costs and reducing profits. The other thing to consider is that land is cheap as you get more rural. An apartment building likely needs to be closer to the city center and that land may be more expensive even though it is 20% of the size.
> That just increases reliance on cars

The opposite.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop (or any)

- HEADLINE: Installer should allow dual boot with encrypted disk

- DESCRIPTION: Currently it is impossible to use the Ubuntu installer to install Ubuntu on only part of a disk if you want the Ubuntu partitions to be encrypted. (If it's not impossible, it's hard enough to figure out that this advanced user couldn't, so it might as well be impossible for new users.)

Disk encryption is a requirement nowadays, and many users want to dual boot when they first install Ubuntu. So this prevents users from even trying Ubuntu.
buy your own house

But we were discussing buy-to-let? The question was: is buy-to-let cruel exploitation of the tenant or not.
Those can be learned outside of the university, though. Some certification that takes them into account would be useful. Having to waste 4 years and a ton of money just so you have a piece of paper showing people that you know what you knew before seems extremely wasteful.
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Alsup is not an unprofessional judge, although his bachelor's is in Math, not Law.
I had problems with integrated Wifi in laptops.

I try 'to sell' Ubuntu to my family but the Wifi drivers are always a problem. Specially with HP laptops.
Or maybe even a crawling project like Common Crawl.
I'm not a developer nor run Linux as my primary and got this working on DO and Vultr and XenServer. The github issue community is pretty active. Check out some of that info. The main maintainer is also easy to contact.

I set it up using MacOS. It's all about the playbooks. Get that right and you're good.
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Napkin-math ...

Long-term, Falcon9 exists to fund Spacex' R&D for Mars. Until now, Musk has said <5% of Spacex budget goes to ITS dev. I expect that to change now.

1st stage costs $40m, targeting 10 flights = $4m/flight, amortised. Add another 2-3 million for refurbishment, storage, etc., and reusing the 1st stages should save Spacex ~$33m.

Shotwell, however, has stated that customers will receive up to 30% discount. On a $62m flight, that's a savings of <$19m ...

giving Spacex an extra $12-15m pure profit on every flight ... which I hope/expect to get channeled into ITS dev.

Spacex is already the cheapest in the industry, and they now have a 3-5 year head-start in reusability, they simply don't need to lower their prices more.
You have two options to try:

1. install the pulseaudio-bluetooth-module, if you didn't
2. follow the procedure below

BT in Ubuntu is in an embarrassing state, and I'm not exaggerating. After they've upgraded bluez to version 5, the workflow for connecting BT audio peripherals is:

- connect the peripheral (takes a few attempts...)
- disable the profile (set to off)
- disconnect the peripheral
- re-connect the peripheral (takes a few attempts again...)
- set the profile to a2dp

this mad workflow has been consistent across multiple machines and audio peripherals.

Before the v5, the BT stack was still garbage, requiring changes (again, verified on multiple machines and peripherals) to obscure parameters in the bluez configuration.

So "please Ubuntu devs", try to produce a working BT stack, and stick with it.
> I wouldn't think much on the comparison except that it is a statement that she is unusually smart.

Well according to the article, it's Harvard University representatives making that assertion. They would obviously know better than to make statements like that casually.
I thought we were discussing the difference between renting a house from a BTL landlord vs buying your own house.
Space is extremely cold, but only offers radiative heat transfer, which is not nearly as efficient as convective transfer. It's hard to dump heat into a vacuum.
The default Python on any system is the only one which is really well tested and works with all the not-trivial-to-compile packages. Making py3 the default is exactly for deprecating py2 support, thus an apt-get install python27 would never have the wide range of apt installed packages, like it does now.
> We need more brain power to focus on runaway climate change.

Doesn't sound like that's her field of study, so I guess she's wasting her talents then.
Some areas in the world are in a constant state of war and strife. It's not a matter of logistics or food production. The problem is getting warlords to stop their detrimental activities.
Turns out it's only for Chrome, and the front page doesn't even mention this. Could we at least change the HN title from "A browser plugin..." to "A Chrome plugin..."?
Congratulations to the FBI for borrowing a page from the handbook of the mullocracy of Islamic Republic of Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Malekpour

(Have you noted dear reader that thugs act and look the same no matter where they are from?)
>doesn't introduce hidden runtime overhead

Or protection.
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That's not a very accurate analogy, since sequential reads do improve. CAS latency is one limiting factor on random reads, which has been constant / only slightly improving for a very long time; significant improvements last happened here around with DDR and SDR (i.e. 20 years ago).

This is a central reason why the cache size per thread has not changed much in the last 20 years (beside of course fabbing/yield limits). (And because caches are subject to a similar effect as Dennard scaling)

(btw. I wonder if it'd have been smarter by the memory industry if they specified latencies in absolute numbers (or relative to the memory array clock, not the bus clock), not bus cycles, since the rising latency numbers have been a marketing issue in every generation.)
And then later in that same article, we see clear artifacts (messages, remote disabling of the software, etc) of the author's attempts to stop malicious use of his software.
>>There seems to be a lot of people who cannot handle the possibility of the NY Times being wrong enough to be skeptical about.

>NYT. Wins: too many to count. Losses: 3. I don't quite see your point.

You're illustrating it.
From the abstract:

> If the analysis presented here can be made rigorous to show that $H^{ˆ}$ is manifestly self-adjoint, then this implies that the Riemann hypothesis holds true.
I first heard about the Echelon/5 eyes network on 60 Minutes some time in the early 90's. I remember controversy about it flagging people for mentioning "bomb" in phone calls, so I would say I did hear about it from the main stream media.

People still called it a crazy conspiracy theory when I brought it up, but I usually attributed that to them not watching enough news, not watching too much.
generation X will almost not be
buying a home for until their late 30s.

Why is that a problem? Assuming the usual repayment schedule of 25-30 years, that means the houses are paid off before retirement, i.e. before they stop having an income. That's exactly how it should be. Most people are too unstable (in many senses of the work) in their 20s to take on a major responsibility like a house.

rent contol.

This leads to massive misallocation of resources such as illegally subletting at market price.

It's quite simple in fact: supply and demand of dwellings needs to be in synch. If you have immigration and/or reduction in family size, you need to build more. For various reasons the obvious solution is typically rejected ...

Germany

I'd argue that the reason is different, namely that big organisations such as trade unions and (the german version of) pension funds have traditionally provided rental homes at large scale, which kept supply and demand in check. Cf sozialer Wohnungsbau [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialer_Wohnungsbau
Why would you need it in a browser that you trust to respect your privacy?
It takes a little more than that to be in the same category as Einstein. Also, if your age is important to make the achievement impressive, it's generally not that impressive. Like cool, good for you, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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IIRC, my IP address got blocked for some time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13643873 :)
Flagged. Have you noticed there are never any other roundup articles hitting the front page?

HN is the roundup. Post the individual articles if you want us to read them. And please do it in a less spammy way than you have been.
Hmmm. The marketing machine needs more fodder to cull the rich for money. Isnt Harvard's endowment big enough that they are capitalizing on her? What better use of young talent than to prostitute it?

Let her be. Look at her web site. Two pages of real science and the past two years it looks like she is a pop music superstar or athlete. I get it that they are trying to say "yeah for women!" and encourage the scores of despondent, underachieving women who have been squashed by the white male machine. But really, instead of having her talk everywhere, why not simply have her tutor young women students to excellence.? I'd rather see her as a consultant to the young women's center for STEM
I have to disagree with you. Before we 'cut the cable' my wife used to watch MSNBC and last year it seemed like their nightly news hours were mostly the opinion of the show's host, couched as news.

I do agree with the way papers like the NYT has separate 'opinion' sections or labels articles as being and editor's opinion - way better than how MSNBC put forth opinion as hard news.
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Dunno, to me it's stronger because it emphasizes that the other answers are naive.

I've been in positions where other people in a thread happen to answer a question I have expertise in, but they don't know what they are talking about. It happens so often on forums like HN/Reddit that I appreciate it when someone can call them out for "authoritative guessing".

It was a tiny slap on the wrist.
Redshift still works quite well. Maybe it should be pre-installed and better 'advertised'. Many people still don't know that this is a very nice feature to have.
That's different from what I described above.

You don't use a '+' at all in the fastmail email addresses you give out.

For example, say with gmail you have name+stuff@gmail.com, with fastmail you could use that if you wanted, but you can also use stuff@name.fastmail.com

If fastmail receives mail on that address, it converts it for you as if it had been sent to name+stuff@fastmail.com instead.

This happens entirely on the fly so you can make 'proper looking' emails without a '+'
why does a budget conscious network admin need audio and video surveillance through people's computers?

I don't know why organizations make decisions I would find unconscionable, but that doesn't mean they don't do it.

IT departments often become the enablers of surveillance.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...
> Nah, the next frontier is more likely everyone fully consolidating around REST as it stands today. This looks like movement for movement's sake, instead of improving developer ergonomics in an increasingly predictable world.

I certainly agree with the plug idea -- consistency is very good -- but I think that we should really consider what REST is actually buying us at the end of the day.

Most people prefer to integrate through a well-maintained SDK where one is available rather than shelling out to HTTP directly (imagine calling the APIs of something like AWS over raw HTTP), and if that's fairly widespread, it might not be too bad of a thing to start moving the underlying transmission protocol of those SDKs over to something that's more flexible and more efficient (like GraphQL, but also maybe other things).

A comparable analog might be when Google experimented with replacing TCP and TLS with a new protocol called QUIC that operates over UDP [1]. Because QUIC still exposes an HTTP/2 API, providers and server-side infrastructure could potentially move over to it relatively painlessly.

[1] https://ma.ttias.be/googles-quic-protocol-moving-web-tcp-udp...
"To the extent that there is bias, it is slight and subtle. Opinion is labeled as such. Pointing to specific counter-examples is like identifying NASA with the failures of the Challenger -- it completely misses the forest for the trees."

Are you serious? You broadly profess the journalistic integrity of multiple institutions that have been embroiled in ethics scandals and then preemptively disallow any responses as missing the point. What a disingenuous and absurd statement.

Forgive my nearsightedness, but I would argue that a prominent newspaper has serious problems, far past "slight and subtle" bias, when its own writers are secretly giving drafts and veto power to a political campaign [0]. Keep in mind I'm not defending right-leaning publications, either. They have their own set of problems. But this ironic, constant claim that left-leaning publications are above reproach or criticism is laughable. We, the readers, must always keep them honest through our own honest critiques and feedback.

[0] http://nypost.com/2016/10/11/the-new-york-times-abandoned-it... - first that popped up in Google
My company verified my degrees. I know they did because I had graduated from a master's program around the same time I sent in the paperwork to HR, and they needed me to physically bring in my diploma as proof of graduation (the university records hadn't been updated in all systems yet).

I didn't need transcripts though. You don't need a transcript to verify that someone obtained a degree.
1. "There is an objective reality".
2. "Reality is consistent".
3. "The human mind is capable of knowledge about reality".

These all need to be taken as axioms if any further knowledge is going to be possible.

There's a book called Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology which covers this in much more detail. (Ayn Rand gets a bad rep, but few people know about her theories of concepts and knowledge. They indicate the path to solving many of the issues in philosophy of science).
FLAVOUR: Desktop

HEADLINE: Sort out the default colour scheme

I can't really comment on the more technical side, but the Ubuntu Grey/Purple/Orange colour palette is horrible - it makes the whole desktop feel claustrophobic. There's something icky about it.

Together with the 'quirky' Ubuntu font, which is hard to read at small sizes and not at all helped by Linux's mediocre font rendering, it makes for a fairly unpleasant experience.

Your designers should be looking at Elementary OS for how a pleasurable desktop could be designed, even if it's a bit to close to Mavericks-era macOS.

(I know it's possible to change the theme, but none of them have the fit and finish that a first-party one would have)

ROLE: Graphic and UX designer (who wants to love Ubuntu but can't for superficially visual reasons)
I think this is what a lot of people in this thread don't understand. They want a narrative, you're either the good guy or the bad guy.

We all know about the NYTimes' failure in the buildup to the 2003 Iraq War but what about a story like Hoosick Falls where a chemical company had been dumping perfluorooctanoic acid into the drinking water?

I have been reading the paper for decades and I can say that for every Iraq War failure there are hundreds of Hoosick Falls stories that involve important investigative journalism.

The NYTimes makes mistakes but it is a net good to society. There is a current trend in popular culture where if a solution is not perfect then it shouldn't be implemented at all. There will never be an objective media and you should be highly skeptical of any media that claims that as their advantage.