skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The only real advantage for a new spec is to bump the density.

And DDR4 can apparently support 128GB per module. Those apparently exist, but you can't find even a 32GB at Newegg.
Xbox One Hack: Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit
Just curious, how did you determine this plugin has Google Analytics ? I'm wondering why they just don't post the plugin for everybody - - rather than insisting you pony up your email in order to receive the plug in ? Usually marketers want your email.
But if their intent is to profit, reguardless of ethics and facts? Sure 'real' news will be included, but mixed with questionable content. This is the real problem and situation.
This. Please, don't ask people to reboot the computer unless it's strictly needed.

GNU/Linux is not Windows 95.
$6.7B Later, the NFL Has Closed the 'Great Stadium Era'
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Mouse Button Remapping

- DESCRIPTION: I'm a disabled user and "left-click" with my thumb. At the moment, there's no visual way to do that in Ubuntu's settings.

I have to run something like `xinput set-button-map "Evoluent VerticalMouse 4" 0 3 0 4 5 6 7 0 2 1 2` whenever I login, or connect my mouse, or if the phases of the moon changes.

Please - all I want is a GUI where I can say "For this mouse hardware, use this button map."

Thanks :-)
Coldwell Banker Home of the Week: Kevin Costner’s Oceanfront Paradise
Coveralls bug shows random commit messages
> However, most of the authors and staff at those organizations are extremely professional and take their mandate to report and analyze very seriously. To me, this is self-evident 95% of the time. To the extent that there is bias, it is slight and subtle.

You clearly haven't read their pieces on India - though I suppose this is a symptom of something more insidious.
Amazon is dead serious about drone delivery
Spyware on my google phone! Why I never!
If people were savvy enough to see through that, nobody would be talking about "fake news" because it wouldn't be a problem.
thanks for sharing -- i have a perfect use case for this.

built a twilio app, sorta like "mailchimp for texting," and was dreading building a back/forth reply system.

trying this out in the next few days, you'll see my signup come through with a domain that starts with 'G' if you want to chat.
> Is farming really dead?

No, there's plenty of research to make agriculture (industrial and subsistence farming) more efficient. But it's not trivial getting it into the hands and heads of people since you can only do that locally.

> It seems to have a premise that we can only feed all the people on Earth from space.

No. Nasa and noaa are contributing some parts to a larger machinery. It is not the sole purpose of space missions, but it is a synergetic effect. You need weather forecasts to optimize farming, satellites help with that. GPS helps with international trade which in small part also covers shipping of fertilizer or pesticides to countries.
macOS handles that edge case. It just displays the window in only one screen. The one with the biggest area of the window shown. There is no need to be held back by cases like this.
Let's hope they don't throw 50 years of prison or plea deal at him, as they tend to do, and that he doesn't take the plea deal. Since software has already been defined as free speech, I think there's a very good chance he should win this.
PS4 4.0x Webkit exploit released
You're missing the point. It's perfectly relevant to point out that SpaceX is now able to charge much more for reuse than the marginal cost, effectively being able to charge monopoly rent for being the only player on the field with a reuse capability. Of course, it's not a total monopoly on launch period, but that's missing the point. A 30% reduction in price doesn't represent the ultimate lowest cost of reuse because currently there's no competition for reuse.
Also see Linus' comments if it wasn't obvious enough that this is really important [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=24m8s
They probably won't now ;)
I'm very early in the process of looking for a job in Europe, and lots of things do indeed seem to be different. Here are some things I've been asked to provide prior to an interview (that none of my US-based employers have requested) :

* Full life-long gapless CV
* marital status
* family status
* hobbies
* original college transcript
* multiple references
* picture

To your point, there definitely seems to be more stigma against those without college education. I once accidentally sent a resume without my college info, and was asked matter-of-factly if I was "uneducated". In the US, most employers don't even seem to care about my schooling anymore since I have 5+ years of professional experience.
I don't know for web external APIs but for an internal network of services talking to each other I've found GraphQL to be very convenient. The "single entry point" and "describe what you want, you'll get what you described" mindset makes it powerful, when used with the graphiql trial and error interface. We barely have to document anything anymore. It seems a bit weird to use a twisted json for the queries but it works well after getting used to it. If someone wants to go this road, I'd suggest enforcing use of variables in queries (so high level caching works better) and do directly to the connection modelfor pagination.

http://graphql.org/learn/queries/#variables
http://graphql.org/learn/pagination/
Redshift is great. I have a systemd user unit for it, and I actually prefer it to Flux on OS X.
That's one of the more naked uses of "false dichotomy" that I've seen in a while.
Despite having cleaned out old kernels before, I spaced one day and accidentally removed the kernel I was running. This is fixable if you boot a live distro you can mount the relevant volumes (like your root disk to /mnt/foo, and your boot partition to /mnt/boot), then, after a chroot to /mnt/foo you can re-install the kernel. Here is an article describing it (but it misses mounting the boot partition) http://askubuntu.com/questions/28099/how-to-restore-a-system...
Don't be unreasonable.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Replace X11 with Mir or Wayland

- DESCRIPTION: X11 is old, slow, and full of security issues. Mir, even in alpha, is much more responsive and provies important 21st centry feature set. Wayland is already used by a major distro. X11 is that cobweb that's gone uncleaned in our closet for too long.

- HEADLINE: Improve UI.

- DESCRIPTION: When I use Ubuntu it's often easier to use the terminal then to learn the 10 different UIs to configure everything. This makes it impossible to convert specific people to using Ubuntu because they just don't have the time to learn all of the terminal-spells I know. Ideally there'd be a single place that could detect most configs for standard packages and a way to add hooks to that to get your package to show up in that menu. I don't know if this exists but if it does it's definetly not used.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: "Undergraduate Research Associate", I program and do sysadmin stuff for a department at my college.
Help Wanted: Cost-Effectiveness Research for Health and Wellness
It's kind of funny their website includes TypeKit, SquareSpace, and Google Tag Manager scripts - all of which can (and probably are) tracking various things. They may not be connected to "you", may be anonymized, may be unique number representing you.
How Computers Learned to Read
It IS popular to hate on Thiel but it is also very hard to dispute most of the stuff that he says. Granted, everyone is wrong about something, but in this case, I think he nails it pretty darn well!
I'm definitely not a designer, but I will say I love the Ubuntu fonts
There are Block 5s in the pipeline, but they have not flown yet and will only fly at the end of this year.
The problem is, people willing to reject the NYT out of hand, and who lose faith in all mainstream media, seem either unwilling or incapable of applying the same skepticism to "alternative" sources like Infowars.

I won't call them fools, but I will say many seem less interested in truth than in bias confirmation.
Science papers are getting harder to read
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 [...]

This would also increase your traffic ten or fifty fold in a first approximation. You would make a single household look like a family with several people sharing the Internet connection. Netflix for example can separate several people using the same account, I read about that during the Netflix Prize [1].

But overall I agree with your point, you probably can throw a wrench into the machinery maybe even to the point that it is not worth to pursue tracking any longer. But it certainly is not easy and randomly clicking on links will definitely not do the trick.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
Snappy remarks are not welcome here, especially if you misunderstand my comment. If she's really gifted, I hope she pursues meaningful research.
FLAVOR: All

HEADLINE: Embrace the spirit of Open Source, not just comply with the letter of the law

DESCRIPTION:

Here's an extract from the Software Freedom Conservancy report on Canonical's licensing policy:

> Redistributors of Ubuntu have little choice but to become expert analysts of Canonical, Ltd.'s policy. They must identify on their own every place where the policy contradicts the GPL. If a dispute arises on a subtle issue, Canonical, Ltd. could take legal action, arguing that the redistributor's interpretation of GPL was incorrect. Even if the redistributor was correct that the GPL trumped some specific clause in Canonical, Ltd.'s policy, it may be costly to adjudicate the issue.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/
I would like to see Wayland by default, and you committing to the project in a meaningful fashion.
Please god let this be taken up! I'm so fed up of

sudo service network restart
Fedora uses libinput. Of course, it is not without issues from those, who would like to tweak every little setting. Libinput is designed to be as automatic and configuration-less as possible.
There are a lot of these crappy 6-20 unit apartment complexes around me. They have all the downsides and none of the upsides of renting. They are usually the price of larger apartments but with none of the amenities. I'd far prefer a larger complex with a pool, gym, and reliable maintenance.
Nasa was also researching a stirling engine based RTG (as opposed to thermoelectric), but lack of funding has put that mostly on ice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Stirling_radioisotope...
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: Secure, immediate isolation or power down

DESCRIPTION: When a zero day like heartbleed comes out I want the operating system to give me the option to immediately disconnect from the internet, or even power down the OS. I also want the ability to call these commands myself so that if I have a wider scanner, like Appcanary, I can trigger the shutdown command myself.

I want this command to get called anytime there is a reasonable (>10% chance) that the server could give out shell level access through nothing more than normal internet traffic, and I want the OS to take care of it.

Ubuntu is awesome because it doesn't make me learn stuff unless I want to learn them. The defaults are sensible and configuration is usually pretty easy. I'd like security to be as easy as this.
Either move to a smaller planet, or invest heavily in nuclear propulsion.
Are there applications which will see significant benefit from a new generation of DRAM, or higher speeds?

Games, for instance, seem to see only very small performance differences from changing RAM speeds.
Personally, I found the description of (G)RPC intriguing, since the API that I've been building recently for a project resembles this most closely. I had started by trying to follow REST, then over time in an effort to reduce and simplify network requests, the API became a collection of, basically, remote function calls - organized as a map of "actions" on both client and server. I'm still pretty much a novice at building APIs, though, so the article was educational for me to compare the pros and cons of various approaches.
I strongly agree with Thiel on lots of things about business and innovation. I just don't think I agree with him on politics or social issues to the extent that I can figure out what he actually thinks on these issues. The latter can be challenging since he seems to keep those cards face down.
Well, it is your logic, you should own it.

I am arguing the points you are making, I disagree with your claim that bad things happening during the formation of a country is the basis of that country. You are the one using generalized statements to label an entire nation of people as evil.

If you want to say some, I repeat some, of the founders had unfortunate attitudes toward slavery then that's fine. Some of them did, some of them did not. But you are heavily insinuating that everyone, EVERYONE, at the time of the formation of the country was in favor of indentured servitude and slavery. Which is simply not true. I would assume the indentured servants and slaves who later became citizens would not be in agreement with such things. Although, I'm willing to bet we could find examples of ones that were.

Did those individual points happen in the US throughout its history? Yes they did, I have no problem agreeing to that. But since you seem to suggest that the US is a bad country due to that history then by standard logic we must dictate that every other country that have had similar bad things in its history must equally be bad. Which is quite likely every single country this planet has ever had throughout human history. You are choosing to ignore the good to point out the bad and then blame everyone for it, whether they are responsible or not. That is silly logic.

Just because a country has bad moments in its history does not mean that is the basis and fabric of that country.
Is there a causation factor here? Meaning: are MBA CEOs hired by companies who are in "trouble", or Boards who want to "achieve growth via acquisitions" instead of more organic ways? In other words, does this reflect companies who are more likely to hire MBA-types as their CEOs rather than the individuals themselves?
They were happy to loose to the West who had less reason (by an order of magnitude or more) to hate them.

That Stalin was butcher seems a bit mute compared to the German responsibility of the savagery of the Eastern Front.
Oh yeah, I agree with you. Just wanted to point out what's stopping SpaceX from hitting that level.
... and sometimes they have even better support than macOS. ;-)

E.g. the 2016 Apple MacBook Pro with TouchBar supports DisplayPort-daisy-chaining, while under macOS you can only daisy-chain monitors if they support Thunderbolt.
Yeah. Blue Origin is probably at least 4 years behind, but Bezos has more money than God and Blue Origin's approach is technically sound, so yeah. I don't think SpaceX will indefinitely be the only reusable launch provider, and I don't think anyone would want that anyway.
I think it's more useful to think of MBAs as ordination into something like the Jesuits of American Corporatism.

Late Capitalism in the US has evolved in such an obviously unequal and environmentally dangerous way that the only recourse we have is to a kind of "mystical" rhetoric. In this kind of system, being some kind of guru is just as important, if not more, than one's actual business acumen. Hence all the TED talks, CEO aphorisms, and hollow simulations of benevolence.

In this context, an MBA takes the form of acceptance into this quasi-religious order. It's either a readymade set of sacraments and oaths one can apply to any business to achieve magical effects. Or it's a kind of born-again incorporation, where people who have achieved something outside this system can be integrated back inside (why you see already successful business people going back to pursue these credentials).
+1 every system now has it. so make sense to join the club
"To draw a firm conclusion, however, would take a clearer understanding of the direction of causation. While games improved since the turn of the century, labour-market options for young people got worse."
Remember that behind those guys sitting around all day in suits, there is another guy sitting around all day on his boat.
Razer Blade review: the Goldilocks of gaming laptops – The Verge
Hmm... well I doubt parachutes are any harder than landing a rocket on a barge, so I'm sure this could be done. Sounds like one possible path. The stage may sustain some damage on landing but it would allow at least some of its more costly parts (engines, electronics) to be re-used and the rest of the material to be recycled.
Intel 600p 1TB NVMe SSD Review – Tom's Hardware
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Integration with Microsoft Active Directory

- DESCRIPTION: Would be nice if in enterprise environment single-sign-on (logging on with kerberos) would work out of the box :).
Samba shares in nautilus are usually also slow (against windows server, between linuxes is ok) or have some other logging in problems.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer using Ubuntu in enterprise, which officially supports Windows.
Googlers of hacker news: stop allowing this.
What exactly is the point? If the FBI suspects you in a case of the international heist of carrots and your search history includes "consealed carrot transportation" and "circumventing carrot museum security", it doesn't matter what else you googled. It only matters that this is included in it.

Edit: it was a 24-carrot job.
Left-Center here. Appalled at the media bias. You must not be looking.
This seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. "I worked with some bad MBAs, so anyone who holds that degree must be bad."
What Fedora and CentOS do is a generic yum/dnf option: installonly_limit. It allows you to keep limit on the amount of packages with the same name and different versions, kernel included.
They go under when buyers stop showing up. It's the buyers. Think: where does their money come from? (from buyers)
Some Native Americans did, in fact, have and sold slaves.
>I simply perceive the feasibility of software prohibition via government license to be as effective as it is for guns and drugs.

In other words, not effective at all against the people you're attempting to target (criminals) and only negatively affecting the people who don't deserve or need to be targeted (law abiding citizens)?

Yeah, that'll work great. /s
Microsoft Wishes HoloLens a Happy Birthday
> Read and change all your data on the websites you visit

While I applaud the authors for trying to solve a problem, I will not install this plugin unless its open source. There is no way I'm going to grant the above permission to some random plugin just because they tell a compelling story.
+1. This is one of my major annoyances w/ Ubuntu. Been using it 3 years now and this seems like a fundamental issue that should be fixed.
Is this plugin available for Firefox?
>I don't understand what you mean, if it has the same interface as autotools how do you remove the legacy stuff without breaking anything?

By having autotools for the projects that need "everything" (legacy BS checks) and this leaner version for the projects that don't need them.
Not parent poster, but...

It may be the sleep deprivation and caffeine talking, but I was not expecting today to contain "having my view changed so that self-proclaimed alien abductees are not to be considered lunatics".

I feel you're wrong, but I can't articulate why, and what you are saying has an undeniable logic to it. This is unnerving.
the site described is very much a blackhat hacker forum.
So, it's going to be noise among a patterned world. How will they not be able to filter this out?

People are creatures of habit. Example: I read HN with my coffee every morning. Interjecting meaningless data doesn't prevent them from finding my patterns.
14 ways being a runner is like working in tech
I want software to be simple, well-engineered and lightweight. In my opinion systemd is the exact opposite of that. I think this page explains it well: http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

In practice I have had many extremely frustrating problems with systemd including systems that suddenly became unbootable.
I don't think it's about hiding from FBI inquiries but obscuring the value of data that ISPs, Google, Facebook, et al are collecting and selling without your consent.
Every single feature Twitter introduces actually make it worse.
I don't use Ubuntu, but in Fedora it keeps only a handful of old kernels (i.e. one or two back) and deletes the rest. I guess Ubuntu just holds onto every kernel you've ever had since the beginning of time?
Can you hear me now? - Yes.
There have been a few of these plugins floating around recently, and really everything that needs said about them appears in the comments already. Fake traffic is wasteful, hard to make look authentic, and only serves to create more records of the end user around the web rather than less (e.g. your laptop IP was generating fake traffic? That probably means you had the lid open and were doing something with it at that time)

I'd much rather see a browser with some kind of built-in distributed cache, something along the lines of FreeNet, but trading perfect anonymity for performance. Given a large chunk of disk space, and a handful of browsers talking to each other in a local area (e.g. same ISP), it should be viable to concoct a scheme where after a handful of browsers request a particular page, the remaining browsers are confident enough that the data cached in their local group is representative of the data sourced from the origin network.

There are a million issues to iron out with a scheme like that, e.g. bad actors injecting crap into the cache, handling staleness, interactions with dynamic content and API endpoints etc., but I think something like this would have a much greater privacy benefit by denying at least some traffic to the origin networks, or simply by keeping some of that traffic within the boundary of the local ISP's network (and if the local ISP is evil, requests between the nodes could be encrypted as in FreeNet).
>Loaning a gun is even easier,

Really? You're going to make that claim?

Prove it: Just encrypt a gun with my public key and send it to me over email.
You're not wrong, but we're leaving the world of "logic" here and moving into "politics and optics". Most people can't wrap their heads around, "What do you mean I won't be getting $1,200 in March!? $100 per month? Who wants that!"
I like this rule (don't remember who said it): "Write code that is easy to remove, not easy to extend".
Games are a special breed of application since they delegate a lot of work to the GPU and often are GPU-bound, not CPU-bound. Other workloads often end up with the CPU waiting for memory accesses. The most obvious example, besides stream-processing, would be garbage-collected languages. Simply scanning the heap will benefit from all the memory bandwidth it can get.

Even if speeds don't improve perceptibly because the CPU is simply waiting for the human 99% of the time it still may benefit laptop battery time due to increased power efficiency and the CPU completing that 1% sooner and returning to low power states.