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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Volume leveling across applications

- DESCRIPTION: I use headphones every day. I listen to music and podcasts while I work. I use youtube videos and screencasts to learn new things. Sometimes I hop on a VOIP call through one service or the other. The one feature I miss most from Windows Desktop life is the "volume normalization" checkbox in my sound settings. It protects me from opening a new chrome tab and blasting noise into my ears at +30db. It protects me from that guy on the voice call that has his mic level WAY too high. It helps me hear the other guy who can't get his mic above a whisper. Most of all I never have to fiddle with individual application volume levels. Linux Desktops love to crib ideas from Apple, but for some reason they've all ignored this killer feature from 2006.
I had actually switched to a tt-rss instance before Google Reader shut down, and I'm still using it.
I'm working on the California death certificate automation system. DocuSign is not legally accepted for a doctor to sign off on cause of death for a decedent.

Laws for your use case will be different. That's mine.
And they've been such since the 70s:
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

(This book is well worth reading...)
So, when people get a master's degree in something they are passionate about, like Medieval history, they are idiots who should go into STEM (Actually, TE, but I digress).

When those people go into STEM, they are fools for pursuing a field they aren't passionate in.

When they don't go to school, and can't get any jobs, because they all require bachelors degrees, they are lazy, and unmotivated.

What exactly is an 18-year old do?
It's likely to be lighter than ChromeOS.

ChromeOS was a locked down userspace on top of Linux. Fuchsia gets rid of the Linux.
I'd say it has a pretty profound impact on your life: share personal information online, get 'trolled', and then watch that encounter become permanently associated with your name.
20.6% of Canada's population (circa 2011) is foreign born (compared to 12.9% in the US.)[0]

"In Toronto, three-quarters (75.8%) of its population consisted of people who were foreign-born or had at least one parent born outside Canada." [1]

Canada has a LOT of immigrants.

It's true that Canada doesn't have a lot of black or Hispanic people, but a quick look at a few sources suggests they have at least as many visible minorities as the US. (Both countries are close to 20% visible minorities, but I'm having trouble finding comparable numbers.) Most of Canada's visible minorities come from Asia.

[0] http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-01...
[1] http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-01...
Pavlov's Cats
Walk yourself happy
Thanks jpm_sd!

So for the battery, we are actually using a modified version of an older Samsung battery (not the Note 7 haha).

That's something that we didn't want to reinvent. So we are working with a factory who has made these batteries in the past.

I didn't include more about the battery in this post. Is that something you'd enjoy reading more about?
I very much agree. Apart from driver issues this is the area that creates the most friction for me. It feels weird having to fight the OS on something where the right thing to do seems so obvious.
Slippery slope.
I downvoted your post so you can revel in confirmation bias! :-)
I was about to write this exact post. This is the main reason I use Arch Linux. Arch just follows upstream without worrying about holy wars.

There are dozens of ways Ubuntu can innovate/differentiate. Fighting a holy way of Mir vs Wayland (when you came second, and Wayland already had major support) is not a good use of your time. Same goes for Snap vs Flatpak. And what about Juju, or Bazaar (though that's dead now, isn't it?). You did well accepting systemd over Upstart. You could do the same with Wayland (over Mir), Flatpak (over Snap), and officially EOL Bazaar.

I'm not a Unity fan, but that seems like a genuine way for Ubuntu to differentiate and/or compete. Mir and Snap are not. They're just incompatible alternatives that divide the open source community. I know that alternatives can often be good, and inspire competition. But when it's clear you've lost, it's sometimes better to follow your Upstart/Systemd example and join the winning side.
It's user error on your part. The proper way to upgrade a Debian/Ubuntu system is:

$ apt-get dist-upgrade
$ apt-get autoremove

dist-upgrade installs new kernels, and autoremove will automatically remove old kernels (and keep the last 2 most recent ones.)
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So your solution is to be given tools to enforce your cognitive bias reinforcing filter bubble? That's not a solution, that's a technology provided lobotomy.

A dialogue takes two - if you don't like the dialogue taking place, instead of attempting to quiet the other voices, perhaps just remove yourself from the dialogue.
Obama is hailed as a hero for championing Big Data, Trump is literally Hitler.
The EFF lets you see all the fun ways you can be tracked by your browser fingerprint:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Trolling is the new spam. Except trolls want your attention, not your money.

People said the same thing about spam. And it's largely been defeated (or institutionalized, whichever way you want to look at).

We're all still figuring out the dynamics of the attention economy... and I imagine that as we do, we'll find ways to minimize the impact of trolling.

I'd venture to say that that's the big lesson we have to learn from the current presidential cycle (aka troll-in-chief).
Better HiDPI support
No, it's a fundamental issue with the technology. Roughly, the ratio of power density to capacity-that-can-hold-information-for-a-refresh-interval stays more or less constant, independent of fab node. In fact, newer generations (DDR3, DDR4) have been pushing it here (cf. rowhammer).

I doubt we will see a drastic improvement in DRAM latency unless the underlying process changes a lot (i.e. different physical storage mechanism or very different manufacturing).
I had the same problem yesterday, I use fedora but we share the same pain missing this feature. It would be awesome to have this setting. Being able to set different scaling for external monitors is a must have feature.
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Yes, YANGNI. Not against all decoupling at all, but beginners tend to err on the side of too much structure.
That whole handle idea of the 'capability' system, but especially its implementation with 'handles', sounds exactly like Win32 to me. I haven't looked at the source, can anyone confirm or explain what exactly is different?
As a meta-comment - it's interesting to see how religiously-intense this discussion has became. Why are we - programmers - need to hold such a strong opinions about languages? Especially considering a fact that the playground is completely open.

My personal opinion is that if he was wrong - we wouldn't even be reading his argument - it wouldn't make it to the top of HN - everybody would be using Xurl library instead (written in X-lang, where X is not C).

At the same time Rust is shaping to be fantastic language and I personally hope that soon we'll see Rurl cargo together with kernel and what not in Rust. Unless in this decade something better will appear, who knows?
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I imagine most/all those have easily engineered solutions, including eviction.

+1 on the evac plan, but walkable communities need fewer parking spaces because people dont need cars.
Based on a skim of Bolles's book, he actually comes to significantly broader conclusions than this article. For example, I believe a significant chunk of the book is about determining what you actually want to do before even looking for a job. Another chunk of the book is about how to make a resume that employers will look at and actually like. Another is about how looking for a job should itself be a full-time job and how you should basically be applying everywhere, networking non-stop, knocking on doors, etc. Another part is about negotiating salary. Etc.

I have to disagree that Bolles entirely agrees with the conclusion of the article - he takes a more holistic view of jobhunting.
Ultimately, it may be better to abort in such cases, and land with payload (assuming there's enough propellant left to do so), or even discard the payload. As re-usability becomes more commonplace, the cost of the first stage booster will dwarf the cost per launch, and we'll probably see space launches for increasingly lower value cargo.
What if you never wake up?

You'll likely never know. You'll either wake up in your afterlife paradise, which doesn't seem so bad, or you'll find out the hard way that that there is no afterlife. In which case, the lights never come back on.

Who knows what they're doing to you while you're asleep?

Given that there's a room full of people, at least one of which you can count to have some ethics, I imagine they'll just cut you open and fix your problem.

What you really need to worry about is them taking off the correct limb.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Open terminal from Nautilus right-click menu

DESCRIPTION: It would be great to be able to open terminal from Nautilus right-click menu from any directory and the terminal would point to the same directory immediatelly, so users don't have to cd to directory from home directory all the time.

ROLE: IT PM
It is a bad place for it. But it's there because I wrote both of them, and Byobu is always everywhere I want it to be, and I generally always want purge-old-kernels there too.

But yes, you're very right. It needs to be moved out.
This is a capitalist's pan-utopian dream: people, capital, and goods flowing freely over borders. Almost as if nations didn't exist!

What about taxes and the [re]distribution of benefits? [sound of rusty monkey wrench entering complex gear mechanism].
IMO this is taking the wrong approach. Why spread your data accross more site, when the problem is the individual sites you visit - not random ones you don't? This (dead) project of mine sends similar data to the site you are currently on - but instead of noise it is purposely malicious and will ruin the website owners tracking abilities if used at scale.

https://hello-kill.github.io
I work in healthcare, we get about 200-300 pages per day.
I think the short answer is: (1) work for yourself, not as an employee, (2) find a niche market, (3) create a SaaS product for it, (4) outsource tasks like support to other people instead of doing them yourself.

I just recommended this book the other day in a related thread [1], but Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling really is a stellar reference on this topic. He is very big on the "grow big enough to have a functional small business (buzzword: micropreneur) but don't grow forever and obsessively". They also have a (paid) forum where you can talk with likeminded devs turned founders.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13981490

[2]: http://www.startupbook.net/
Who did Gawker decide to pay per click in March 2008, advertisers or writers?
Is there any legitimate use case for triggering SYN flood ?
This is a major reason, though certainly not the only reason, that the NYT has moved toward a primarily subscription-based business model for their online offerings. It's actually been very successful to date, and I think it's a good move for resisting the urge of clickbait. (https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/)
"Unapproved subtenant (approval can be either stated or implied) is the only person still remaining in the unit (subtenant holding over)"

Here is a list of just causes for eviction in San Francisco.
https://www.sftu.org/justcauses/
The entire point of LTS is that things don't change. Security features are back ported, but you're on Node 0.10 because when 14.04 was released it included Node 0.10. You have an old version of youtube-dl because that's what was available at the time.

You use an LTS release when you want to do 'apt-get upgrade' and not change anything. No new features, no deprecated features, no changes other than back ported bug and security patches. No moving to a newer version of Apache which uses different modules by default, or a newer version of PHP which changes a critical default variable. It's always the same software, just fixed when it's broken.

If you're looking to keep your system up-to-date with the latest and greatest, then there are a few suggested solutions:

1. Install stuff yourself
2. Use a backports PPA or vendor packages
3. Use a more specific package manager (e.g. pip for python, cpan for perl, npm for node, etc)
4. Update your servers more than once every four years

If you want the latest version of software, you need to not use the LTS version, and you need to update to the newer releases as they're released, because the entire point of LTS is not to do the thing you're asking to do.
User: I want hi-res apps!

Dev: Sure, here you go.

User: But why is it so small on my new shiny tablet high density screen?

Dev: (SHit it worked okay for me) Okay now it detects the density and scale..

User: But when I move the window to my old good lcd screen it becomes way too big!

Dev: Okay let's see if I can dynamically adapt to a new monitor density, it's just one scale factor.

User: But when I put it on my big tv flat screen it is too small!!

Dev: (Oh shit you gotta be kidding me, the pixels are actually a viewing distance relative unit??!)
Here in Seattle, it's been said that developers can afford to keep ground floor space empty in apartment developments as the apartment rents adequately cover the financing. You see lots of ground floor window covers (pictures of happy people walking dogs) that hides the vacant space. I've always thought it would be ironic to open a business that sells cling wrap advertising in one of those spaces.
lvm thin provisioning lets you achieve this with any file system. So it doesn't have to be zfs or btrfs. It can be xfs or ext4 too.
After reading these arguments I was expecting something in the range of dollars per fax.

Is 7 cents per page really that much? I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff, but are there really that many places out there faxing thousands of pages where 7 cents per page vs 5 cents per page is really going to make a difference for them?
I have kids so when I go out I want to know about kid meals/deals. I don't travel a lot so I pretty much know where there is to eat around me. (Probably not your target market)
I said nothing about the network, which is indeed likely valuable (though I argue you get a much better ROI by working with/networking with people who are already successful instead of with people who might one day be successful). The parent comment was specifically about the value of classes, which I strongly disagree with.
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I couldn't figure out where I can change the different scaling for the external monitor on my fedora 25. My 1080p external monitor just looked huge comparing to my dell xps 13 hidpi display.
Are document-specific replies part of current manual faxing technology? This seems like something that would depend on your own internal document management rather than the fax protocol itself.
What companies do you have in mind? I'm not aware of any organization that spends heavily on lobbyists and would stand to profit from more trains; train manufacturing is generally a small part of big conglomerates, like Siemens and GE. (This is the product of long, frustrated research on exactly that point.)

If it's self-driving cars you're thinking of instead of trains (and self-driving cars are a ludicrous solution, with all the drawbacks and none of the advantages of both cars and trains), they're a fad, and they sort of market themselves. When they fail to deliver in 5-10 years, we'll be free of that crap.

The majority of this sentiment is the millenial preference for living in cities like traditional civilized peoples, instead of out in plastic suburbs with no commerce except retail chains and no social activities except TV, Evangelical megachurches, and sportsball. Kunstler's Geography of Nowhere might be worth reading on this subject.
I've heard the terms ref and attribution (system/engine) in a couple of big SF consumer and ad company offices. Views are tracked and great engineering efforts go into tying all of a person's sessions together. Those terms should find some product pages. I am not familiar with the payment and dispersion details enough to comment, other than technology has advanced far beyond the click
Everytime we do this on HN, the same argument shows up -- "MBAs are the worst." "Well what about these popular CEOs?" "Well they're not really MBAs, c'mon."

Sundar Pichai went to Wharton for his MBA before joining Google. He is also ex-McKinsey. So, by HN standards, he's the absolute worst, right?

Google's leadership ranks are filled with MBAs, including tons of VPs that aren't household names but are nonetheless very influential here.

MBA programs are one of the primary ways we recruit product managers (it's how I became a Google PM, full disclosure). Sales, strategy, ops are also full of MBAs.

The next phase of this monthly argument on HN will be, then: "Well, that's what's wrong with Google then, it's all crap after they started hiring MBAs!" which is also nonsense, because lots of the senior people w/ MBAs were hired a decade ago or more.
There is that already. Click 'Other locations' in the sidebar and at the bottom of the window you have 'Enter server address...' textbox. Put your sftp:// or smb:// url there. Discoverable shares (smb) will be displayed in the window.

Vboxsf is not a network redirector as it is in Windows; look for vboxfs mounts in the /media directory.
Sorry, but Ubuntu is doing something wrong here, not me. This should be handled automatically. Ubuntu wants to be the system for everybody, but you can't expect people to open the terminal and fix this manually. Making boot 20GB is ridiculous, but 1GB should be no problem, and for me 2GB would be OK if that means that this problem will disappear forever.

And I believe my boot partition is only 256MB, and I didn't set it to that. That was a system default.
Too bad that Math heavy approaches just cannot compete.
I like the "FBI Cyber Division" Logo. It's cool in a creepy, dystopian way.

A quick Googling doesn't seem to indicate whether it's "real" or not....
>On top of that, Linux essentially sucked all the air out of the UNIX development space by killing off all the commercial UNIXes.

For good reason too. The commercial UNIXes were absurdly expensive, and they were all incompatible with each other too. There's a reason all the software developers abandoned UNIX and went to Windows. UNIX killed itself with ridiculous license fees and fragmentation. Linux saved it by making it free, open-source, and unifying it and using common standards instead of a bunch of vendors trying to make their own hoping to gain marketshare and ending up losing everything to MS. Of course, this hasn't prevented Linux from having its own share of fragmentation (the different DEs chiefly), but it's nothing like the UNIX Wars of the 80s.
Cost of living vs wages situation is even worse in Toronto, Canada. The reality is that if you don't have (a large enough) bank of mom and dad behind you, you gotta hustle to get anywhere. I think "the hustle" will be the defining paradigm of my generation, and honestly its a good thing. The only person who can help you, is you and nobody else. Some people think big government will crank down on wealthy overseas buyers with multiple properties, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that... I'm quite sure the people who could do it already got large cheques from interested parties to make them reconsider.
Thank you. Having used macOS for years now, where the transition to High-DPI displays was pretty much un-noticable, I was shocked to install Ubuntu on a machine with a High-DPI display and not see everything working right. Mouse cursor too small. Fonts too small. Icons too small. Change this. Now text is OK. Tweak that. Now icons are all right, but it didn't affect Firefox for some reason. Change that other thing. Now mouse cursor is the right size for a while but the system changes it back every time I come back from sleep.

I still haven't gotten it all to work reliably. And I have no idea if it's Ubuntu, if it's the window manager, if it's the desktop environment, if it's X (or Mir, or whatever they are calling the window system these days) if it's individual applications, or a combination of some of those. It's crazy land.
Ask HN: I'm a student with a Mac App; how do I sell it?
Hi HN! I'm looking for a bit of advice as I'm a complete beginner to selling software. I've created a Mac App which I can't distribute in the Mac App store (It interfaces with some Apple software, and I'm certain Apple would not approve it). I'm looking at creating a website for the app, and signing up with Braintree to process payments, but the whole process is rather daunting, and I'm afraid of legal aspects I might not be considering (I'm selling a product; I don't want to make any legal mistakes that could get me in trouble).

Can anybody offer me any advice on how I can monetize this app as a student, without having to pay big fees in business formation/ etc.?

I hope this community is right to be asking this sort of question in!

Thanks in advance!

- Chris
Oops, sorry. Thanks. :)

I submitted the Ars one instead of the original source, as the Ars one is much more approachable than the original source, and I didn't see the previous submission. Which is weird, as I searched first. Bad me. :/

That being said, the PAN post definitely has the better detail once a person grok's what it's about. :)
It is simple, the law decides.. Whether the law is sane or sensible is a different matter ..
Hey, BriefInventory is something I developed for myself to allow me manage the few assets I have (store documents or define reminders). It worked well for me so I thought it may be useful for others so here it is available to everyone. Feel free to ask questions or suggest feedback :) Thanks.
The only way I can see to fix this is if there was more economic incentive for advertisers to care about the quality of the articles where their ads are placed.

There must have been attempts to do this.

I wonder what's been tried that didn't work.
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Along with the rather ridiculous presser by Marco Rubio, regarding claims of "Russian infiltration into his staff computers" where, when asked if someone … anyone … could have just used a VPN to masquerade as Russians just like anyone of us could have, his response what "A what?"; it is starting to really get a bit ridiculous just how computer illiterate people are. In many ways it's totally unacceptable today that someone like a political leader will have absolutely zero knowledge of even the most basic technology related matters. It extends to both sides of the isle too; the uniquely bipartisan issue of the day, career politicians that are former lawyers who act as though they are actually qualified to be political leaders. Lawyers should be doing the legal work in the background, not service in any kind of elected political role. It is our won fault. We should not be electing lawyers to anythings whatsoever other than maybe, and just maybe, to judgeships.
On the contrary... these trolls have SWATted, stalked, ddos'd, called, doxxed, and harassed normal people.

They've spammed business, social media accounts, email...

For some people the impact on their life is very real.

I can't use my name publicly on the internet because of trolls. This impacts my life in a huge way.
Could be, but the fact remains that they chose a new CEO whose most recent experience was winding a company down into acquisition.
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