skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, that may be it, I am fairly sure they were in the black for a while from their cloud services, but they probably blew that on their push to mobile.
Boldly Go – a musical parody based upon Star Trek (by Caltech students)
I have a friend named Ashley, and his emails always end up in my spam filters, because of AshleyMadison.com, and all their spam.
Perhaps in a future age, spacefaring civilizations will say the same thing about primitive life forms living at the bottom of gravity wells. How can you get anywhere with so much gravity holding you down?
It's jbrown at endgame.com
You could say the same thing about Windows, especially now that they show ads (really?) in their product. Personally, I have switched to Linux (years ago).
Blame the theme for that one. It a legitimate gripe since it's the default but themes like Arc and Numix greatly tone it down.
Mine ended up in the middle instead of at the end of the thread....why does it do that?
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I am somewhat exercised by this. I like Unity and have grown accustomed to it over the years, and in any case I think having choice in software is a positive thing. I hope that the community will continue development of Unity.
I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure I read that AWS pays Canonical for a support contract on the official Ubuntu AMIs, to make sure they stay stable and up-to-date with the new Xen versions AWS uses, etc.

Anyway, even if they aren't making (significant) money on it now, having market dominance certainly puts them in a better position to profit eventually, than in mobile where they first have to unseat the three largest software companies in the world, on those companies' most lucrative markets.
The most succinct description I've ever found of why you switch was so good I made a note of it, though sadly not the provenance:

"If you stay with the door you picked initially you succeed if the initial door has a car, which has a chance of 1/3. If your strategy is to switch then you succeed if your initial pick is a goat, which has a chance of 2/3."
Remarkbox[0] recently came up over on the discuss.bootstrapped.fm forums[1] and might suit your needs. I'm not affiliated in any way - your question just happened to jog my memory that I'd read about an alternative recently :)

[0] https://www.remarkbox.com/

[1] http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/remarkbox-is-the-disqus-alt...
> "Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year."

Now imagine if 6 years ago Canonical had spent all that time and effort into improving existing DEs and implementing Wayland-support instead of their (already then) NIH initiatives.

Where would we all be now? Certainly not still stuck in this same, unimproved X11 sinkhole (yes yes, apart from Fedora-users, I know).

Such a shame they had to spend more than half a freakin decade to realize their mistake.
(2006).
"Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the case, ordered Uber to search more thoroughly for the documents."

Judge Alsup always winds up with the most interesting cases :-)
I will take this with a grain of salt given the excessive criminalisation of ordinary behaviour. Even for horrible terms like "sex offender" we can not be sure if the guy was a rapist or someone getting a happy ending in massage parlour.
You are right there is .NET support, I used it the SPI library.
I think there one library for I2C and one for SPI.
I settled on the FTDI ft4222 which is somehow easier to program
and can only do SPI and I2C (no IO, no UART). The FT232H could be faster
in SPI.
95 pages worth!

until I can turn it off entirely I'm never touching Windows ever again
Uh, as recent as six years ago, the common refrain around the state school I went to was "C's get degrees," and various statements about how all you need is the piece of paper. Hah. Plus, most people in college believe that just having a degree will entitle them to a six-figure job. Seriously. They've surveyed college students and found this to be true. Most don't realize that the average American household income is something like $40K. And even those who do, or who look at the distribution of pay for their chosen profession (though most studying English, American Studies, Art, etc. don't have a career in mind), may make fatal errors in evaluating the trade-offs. My wife and I were top of our class, both very bright (if I do say so myself), we knew about the income distribution (etc.) and we still screwed up and took out way more loans than we should have. Oops. Even on IBR our payments are the equivalent of a car loan for something nice.

So now we're living with the consequences and it'll definitely shape how we talk to our kids. We'll lean on them heavily to live at home through college, go to community college for the first two years, and then finish at a state school. The less debt they have out of college the better their choice set.
How would Uber find files on some employees personal device?
There many success stories in opensource companies but they are not as open as redhat nor as succesdful as redhat.
There is a consulting company over the corner that customizes opensource software at small scale. There coreos, percona, suse,...

Oracle is the only multi billion dollar database-centric company.
Faceboom is the only successful social media (twitter is micro blogging or whatever you call it)
Microsoft is the only desktop blah blah
Amazon blah blah

That is a result of being early, acquire many small successful companies ex. Kvm, ceph, Ansible,...
And being really truely opensource.

No one else is truely opensource, ex. Mysql used to sell exceptions and prosperity features instead of selling Enterprise support.
I'm not particularly committing to either hypothesis right now. If Uber is indeed screwing around with discovery I would imagine they're going to end up in very big trouble. I for one would pretty much consider that prima facie evidence every executive even remotely involved in that decision, including simply being aware of it, should be immediately fired by the shareholders and everything possible clawed back from them. I don't consider that out of the question, but it's a pretty serious accusation on its own. Uber's kinda big to get away with that sort of shenanigan.
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Dell Latitude e7440. Pretty much similar to Thinkpad T430s, but with a great FHD screen.
How augmented reality will put people back to work
"I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS."

I checked the date of the post really carefully as well. That is certainly a change of direction.
I'm an happy GNOME3/Wayland user, with a few extensions GNOME3 is very good.
Those have existed for a few years now. When was this hackathon?
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"How many of them are actively paying Canonical anything at all?"

All of them. Ubuntu gets a cut for every instance of Ubuntu on AWS. The Ubuntu AMI's are not stock Ubuntu, they've been modified. So Amazon has to pay Canonical to use the Ubuntu name or it has to call them something else. That's why Canonical is suing OVH; OVH is using a heavily (and poorly) modified Ubuntu without renaming or paying.
MovableType was the established blogging tool for self–hosted blogs. SixApart (the developers) had had a very loose licensing system, it was basically free for most users. MT had a couple of design flaws which became major problems as individual blogs grew, it build everything as static pages, did very little caching, and the default templates caused rebuilds for every comment or trackback.

While most of those design flaws could be addressed, people started using B2/cafelog which was forked into WordPress. Around this same time period, SixApart started chasing $ down and pushed through a seemingly suicidal licensing change which was poorly communicated and caused many independent bloggers to switch to WordPress.

MovableType development stalled even as WordPress shifted gears and rapidly became popular with Automattic being founded around 2004 or 2005 to commercialize Wordpress, resulting in the wordpress.com service.

MovableType is now clearly a forgotten also–ran, even as static web publishing has regained favor with jekyll and Hugo.
Normally I wouldn't join a conversation this far gone, but I'm curious - are you defining words that you consider to be basically the same as "shut the fuck up" to be violence?
> No, that's a completely non-substantiative quote from an attorney for one side that contains the implicit assumption that Uber really does have the documents

Implicit assumption? The first paragraph of the TechCrunch article says:

Uber admitted today that it had found one of the documents Waymo alleges was stolen by a former employee — who left its self-driving car effort to join Uber’s — on the employee’s personal computer.
They should get behind Enlightenment. I hear Samsung is big on it.
How about this:

You picked a door. It has either a goat or a car behind it, but the goat is more likely. In which case, the remaining doors have a goat and a car behind them. And the host has just kindly revealed which one has the goat.
I think the stupid decision was to assume that I do something that I do not do and then respond to me based on that assumption.

First of all, I am a Windows user 95% of the time. But when I wanna spin up a VM or Linux distro real quick, Ubuntu is my choice. Of course, if I use it longer, I will install KDE or something like that. But with lots of window managers, I noticed instabilities or redundancies (e.g. there's a Unity and a GNOME service running for the same thing). It's best to use a distro with the window manager it comes with. Which was Unity on Ubuntu, but will finally be GNOME again.
Oh interesting, that was news to me most certainly. Do you have a source?
What is the background story for this article?
Thanks for this, it echoes my sentiments exactly. I first saw the 1995 film a couple years ago and loved it, but the existential pieces really need some contemplation, or at least further reading, to sink in. And it's precisely because the dialogue is sparse and even vague at times. Anyone complaining that the new one is notably watered down is speaking through their Otaku filter, or otherwise not recalling just how much the original movie left up to interpretation.

Regardless, I loved both the original and the new movie. I have no idea why people are giving it such flak, other than being bum hurt that obviously a Hollywood adaptation is going to make the story more accessible. They did so, while still being mostly faithful to the mood and atmosphere of the original.
Yeah, I've seen that site - 1 item in the last 10 years. Not a lot considering that he broadcasts 2 hrs a week. Maybe he's improved since the early 2000s?

Anything else? I don't really understand the extreme reaction he seems to get.
From Orion's Arm, online massive sci-fi collaborative project http://orionsarm.wikia.com/wiki/The_Information_Age_(novel)/...:

2015/46 - visual and tactile bodysuits enable advancement in personal Virtual Realities, which begin to take the market share from TV, radio, films, and other media.

2017/48 - first universal operational machine 'Harvey' constructed by a team lead by Peter Shor at Bell labs, with funding from IBM, Lycos, RedHat and Pepsi.

That bit from the timeline was probably written around 1999-2001 or so. Kind of amazing that out of the tech companies mentioned, RedHat is the one that's still doing pretty well.
Nice job. This looks like a lot of work. Have you been able to get this to work with GPU's? Are there any additional steps involved?
Well, this spells bad news for Qt and by extension any non-Gtk Linux environment. I was really hoping there would be more traction behind it to get a better non-C++ dev story; but it seems we're stuck with developing for two separate Linux environments (and other OSes) instead of writing once and having a binary that looks native in every OS with just a few platform-specific stylesheets here and there instead of entirely separate UI codebases.
I agree, but at this point, I had given up hope. It's better to realise one's mistake late than to never realise it at all. So I'm excited they correct it after all.
At numbers that big, what are a few more hundred million? Chump change!
I have to...completely agree with you on your analogy. You forgot to mention the part about the urine sample.
To clarify: The poster is probably talking about the recent TV show, not the original movies, which were less philosophical and more action-driven (that I remember).
Not really news, saying "linux distro chases ideas to rewrite instead of sticking to one thing and fixing it and that's why linux desktop won't ever happen" is like saying "grass is green".
I suspect they got many people who can't become Taxi etc drivers due to these issues and lack higher paying skills.
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Would be interesting if there's a way to list more information on the snap, such as submission date / last updated etc.
https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/744609239075799044
The best explanation on the solution for this problem is from Numberphile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb-6rxZxx0
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it used to not be possible to trade certain Pokémon over the global trade system with their default name due to a filter like this.

I believe Nosepass and Cofagrigus were two of the affected.
Agreed - however as we progress I expect a comment like this to be akin to Bill Gate's 64K comment.
Then again, a large part of Uber's success has been built upon shenanigans. It seems likely that they might develop an arrogance towards the legal system, after years of playing chicken with it.
Firefox OS also (briefly) pivoted to IoT after their mobile efforts failed. Is this a natural pattern?
I certainly don't know the details, but it's hard for me to see a resolution to this where Uber isn't in trouble. Travis Kalanick has publicly stated that self-driving cars are necessary for the future of Uber, and anything that even puts a damper on that (in addition to all the talent they've already lost) is enough to likely kill them as - according to leaked financials - they are already hemorrhaging money.

I've never been bullish on Uber, but this is really bad.
Ubuntu is NOT suing OVH.

Quite the opposite, in fact: https://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp2445.ovh_joins_ubuntu_certifie...
I think you are conflating problems a bit too much.

1. Canonical must worry about the bottom line. It is a company before being a "FOSS company."
2. You are accusing Canonical of hyping before shipping. But also complaining that they did ship Unity and it was "a lot of strife". Either, or.

I think Canonical is doing what many other companies in technology do: try to catch an opportunity to become a de-facto standard. Becoming so is very difficult.

Canonical has failed with Launchpad and now with Unity convergence. But one cannot say they didn't try. Unity in particular is pretty good for daily usage (my opinion) and version 8 looked very promising, at least in the showcases.

We cannot always have our cake and eat it too.
Or you could get a chinese version that supposed to be spyware-free
There's a lot of good things in systemd, and service-files are definitely one of them.

But we could have a system that works like service-files without all the downsides of systemd.
What's next for WhatsApp? It looks like digital payments
Their benchmarks are confusing. Is that what they claim is the time to run a migration or something else?

I would love not having to rely on pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost, and just letting aurora do its magic.
Yes, a required argument. It's not uncommon. Think API keys.
I guess unity was the only thing driving Mir then? Is dropping one the same as dropping both?

Seems like good news to me, having a significant player like canonical contributing to the community instead of fragmenting without much benefit can't be bad can it?

I don't use it on the desktop anyway, but I hope that moves in this direction are rewarded by the community.
There's still KDE, which is chugging along nicely.
Gnome 3 is the best desktop environment I've ever used - my comment history on HN over the past 5 years definitely indicates as much. I'm not going to claim I've used all of them, but compared to what I've seen in Unity, macOS, and various versions of Windows (except Windows 10, which I have not tried), it's modern, fluid, and intuitive. To see Gnome return to the fold of Ubuntu is a huge deal to me and I couldn't be happier or more excited on this decision. Shuttleworth deserves a lot of praise and admiration for taking this bold (and likely painful) path.

(On a related note, I was reading up on Apple's switch from PowerPC to Intel earlier today, and it feels very familiar to this.)
Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.

I'm surprised there isn't more discussion here about that part. I'm really saddened to read that. When the project was first unveiled, it looked like exactly the sort of experience I want out of a smartphone.
Very low.

Paywalls are absolutely fair game to me. I have been a long time subscriber of giantbomb.com and wish more makers go that route.
If we take this at face value:

"As Goldin put it in her speech, "The gender gap in pay would be considerably reduced and might even vanish if firms did not have an incentive to disproportionately reward individuals who worked long hours and worked particular hours.""

This does not violate equal pay for equal work, because it implies there is unequal work. A company is going to look at accomplishment as a guide for whom to promote, and in general, a worker who works more hours is going to accomplish more. It's self evident, but it paints a picture that is cast in a different light than 'the gender gap' which we (including I) infer to mean an unfair bias against women.

It's going to be really tricky to solve. Do we tell men and women they must work the same number of hours? Or do we tell companies they must promote and pay men and women the same, regardless of how many hours each works? Or they must promote such that the executive ranks, or overall pay, is shared to some target equanimity?
What's the point of using Ubuntu now? Fedora will look the same and will be better.
Indefinite look back periods deprive people with decades-old convictions from doing honest work for honest pay. This is counterproductive to society.
Lately my own heuristic is that if the label has more than two ingredients (not counting salt / natural spices) I don't eat it. That means if I want something unhealthy I have to make it myself from scratch, which puts a natural limitation on a big chunk of unhealthy eating possibilities. Of course it's still possible to eat unhealthily this way (the all-steak all-the-time diet comes to mind)
They need to arm against Braves BAT and uBlock Origin.

But it seems to me that BAT is the future.
>> You gotta fight for your right to repair

Depends. My iPhones worked very well for 3-4 years with top performances. I would fight to remove from the market the not-so-durable phones rather than fight against a good product like an iPhone.
I remember a project like this from about ten years ago.

There was only one character (an Asian lady) but her face was high resolution and screen filling so on a typical screen it was about real life sized. Moreover, when you didn't move the mouse she shyly looked around and from time to time ever so slightly raised the corners of her mouth to a Mona Lisa like smile.

All of this made it eerily realistic.
What about Canonical?
Respectfully, I disagree. I've been using GNOME since at least 1.2 or 1.4. I've also used Unity in recent years simply because that was the easiest thing to use when using Ubuntu on one of the systems I have it on. However, it took very little effort for me to start using GNOME 3 in its latest incarnation as it is fairly similar to the Unity interface Ubuntu ships in many respects.
Let me try. Say you pick the prize door initially. Obviously, if you switch you will now have a non-prize door.

Say you pick one of the two non-prize doors initially. The host now opens the other non-prize door, leaving only the prize door. If you switch you get the prize door.

So switching always changes the prize door to a non-prize door and a non-prize door to the prize door. You start on the prize door 1/3 of the time and a non-prize door 2/3, so you should always switch.
I find the hypocrisy amusing. There are people who go apoplectic over dog eating in some parts of Asia but have no problem with pig eating in the west. Pigs have a similar level of intelligence to dogs but it's ok to grow, slaughter, butcher, cook and eat the pig.
Canonical has a commercial relationship with dozens of public clouds, ensuring that the Ubuntu in each of those clouds is securely produced, actively maintained, and at the standards and quality Ubuntu users expect. See the list of excellent commercial cloud partners at:

https://partners.ubuntu.com/programmes/public-cloud
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It also points out that you get actual light speed instead of fiber's 90% of light speed. I didn't realize there was a physical possibility of it being faster than ground.

Mostly trivial compared to the other ramifications, but interesting nonetheless.
Perhaps volunteers will maintain Unity well-enough that it at least keeps working on future Ubuntu releases.
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" -- Richard Feynman
Source article discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631

This is the second duplicate I have seen today on HN.
Is that cross origin though?
Never liked Unity. It just didn't feel right, I wouldn't even know what. But I recently tried KDE Plasma and wow that's a really nice one!
Well I'm disappointed about them dropping their phone project. There's too few players in the phone OS market and Android just has a woeful security ecosystem; most shipped devices only receive updates for a year or two at most. I'm still on Android 4.3 and really don't have any trust in my phone.

I'll still hold out hope that someday an OS that is similar enough to desktop Linux - one that can ship updates independent of the carrier or manufacturer - will rise and fill that void.
Its actually really impressive that Uber is standing behind him at all. Nobodies get fired from their job from any old baseless accusation.
I will defend the right of sex offenders, people with suspended licenses etc. unless I know the specific crime for which they were convicted. A person pissing in a bush can become a sexual offender, an 18 year old kid having sex with 16 year old girlfriend can become sex offender. People might get their license suspended because of economic hardship.

Putting all these people in same bracket as a brazen criminal is a bad idea.
That's a beast, doesn't it weigh a ton and don't you worry about having spinners knocking around in your bag?

Do you need that much in a luggable? I would have that setup on a desktop, having that in my portable machine would remove most of the advantages of it (for me at least)?