skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting stuff. Fire your headline writer, though, because I think your conclusion is potentially more hopeful than the headline suggests.

I'm thinking of the bullet point about a "paid Mastodon instance." I think people (e.g. [1]) have been trying to imagine something like that into existence, and now a lot of groundwork has been laid. Now it's time to build on that, which isn't so much a technical as an institutional problem. As a recent piece on federated systems from Open Democracy also stated [2], what is needed now are people with "institutional expertise" to build up the organizational side of this. Some are suggesting that the Apache Foundation or the Free Software Foundation may provide a model [3].

1: http://ioo.coop/

2: https://www.opendemocracy.net/open2017/jimmy-tidey/what-woul...

3: https://mastodon.social/users/cyrinsong/updates/1606817

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PS: More organizational efforts: https://medium.com/@jonleibowitz/the-true-value-to-be-create...
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What's the other one?
Reminds me of this joke: An economist and a normal person are walking down the street together. The normal person says “Hey, look, there’s a $20 bill on the sidewalk!” The economist replies by saying “That’s impossible- if it were really a $20 bill, it would have been picked up by now.”
The numbers I heard had a 50% replacement/failure rate or so after 10 years. However, that might have been related to the roof installations in Germany.
I like the idea of micropayments to support content.

But I wasn't able to get Flattr to accept my credit card. Wasn't sure if it was because they are Sweden-based and I am in the US, as I didn't keep trying.
Sadly, this appears to be because that stuff is hard and most hackers on Linux just don't care about it.

What they do get opinionated about are things that you mention (multi desktops, launchers, search...) so they work on those.

Not that that is a bad thing as such... but it leads to what you describe.
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> over systems

What kind of systems?
They are probably very specific search terms that are repeated in the documents and might be unique enough to show up in any documents created by someone plagiarizing the Waymo docs. The fact that 31,000 other documents also contain these phrases but are "not substantive" makes it seem like the search terms are somewhat generic but definitely appear in the Waymo docs. Uber might have ruled out all of those other docs by just looking at the dates the docs were last modified. If they are older than when Levandowski or any of the other people previously employed by Waymo joined Uber, then they can probably be vetted as original IP.
Actually, quite the opposite, the GNOME folks have been moving away from it: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/

I think the only Vala maintainer right now is from Elementary OS, where they use primarily Vala.
There wher some scandals about them, no? Poor flattr.
Almost certainly, and depths would have to increase. Like all series expansions the coefficients on later terms have less and less impact so their dynamic range is less and less important to the final value. But the dynamic range on the initial terms is proportionately important. I expect the dynamic range of the weights will turn out to be logarithmic with respect to overall depth of the network.
Those are abusable by first party only though aren't they? This abuse isn't just limited to fingerprinting from 1st party sources, but to 3rd party history detection essentially.
Source? I found no direct quote of what caused the rejections, or if suspension even directly caused the rejection. However:

"The bill creates a two-part driver background check system, one by the transportation network companies themselves that is then followed by a check by the state. Drivers would be screened every six months. Drivers must not appear on the National Sex Offender Registry; not had a conviction in the past seven years; and must not have more than four traffic violations or any major traffic violation in the preceding three-year period."

"Operating after Suspension of Drivers License" is a major traffic violation in Massachusetts.

"Employing unlicensed motor vehicle operator; permitting person with suspended or revoked license to operate motor vehicle" is also a major violation, and could happen if, for example, the owner of the vehicle was intoxicated and ask someone who wasn't intoxicated to drive.
Hope just that Canonical will apply their custom theme on GNOME. As a Arch Linux user, I think that the default GNOME theme is ugly, Unity by default have a much better look.
Well this does make a little bit of sense if after estimating things get worse for a particular case.

If MSEs were 5, 5, 100, and after they are 10, 10, 80, the total got better but the prediction for the other two got worse.
That the relative frequency converges to 50 % is obviously not true. You would have to be exceptionally lucky, but you could get heads, heads, tails repeated for ever and therefore the relative frequency of heads would fluctuate increasingly tiny amounts around 66.(6) %. This of course has probability zero, but it is not impossible. And there are of course many other sequences of outcomes for which the relative frequency does not converge to 50 %. So at best you could say that the relative frequency converges to 50 % with high probability, but now you have a circular definition because you make use of probabilities while defining probabilities.

The Bayesian view is problematic for several reasons. Why do I need someone with believes about the coin, we are talking about intrinsic properties of tossing a coin after all. And if that is not enough, we also throw some betting in. Tossing a coin does certainly not depends on the invention of money and gambling, at least ignoring that coins are usually money. Last but not least you have to explain where your believe about a 50 % probability for heads comes from and how it is justified. I could certainly believe that the probability for heads is 25 %, that would not be a good believe.
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We won SpaceApps global (starting in Valencia, Spain)! We got invited to see a launch (but all expenses were on us). It was quite cool anyway and got to met a lot of amazing people.
Renesas adds 20 MCUs to Synergy platform
What is the difference between virtual, augmented and mixed realities?
Matter of fact, nuts.edu is (or, at least, was - doing a whois on my phone is a pain) registered to a computer club at the NUST (which, incidentally, is the official abbreviation even though the direct translation would be NUTS...)
and the file was... stdio.h. Damn !
"Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year" - year of the Linux desktop is next year then - sounds about right.
Indexing into 2D containers is often an exception to the "x, then y" rule; indexes are very often specified with "row, then column"[1]. It's true that this is different to Cartesian coordinates, but grid cells aren't points or locations on a Cartesian plane, they're members of a 2D container: the grid.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_notation#Two-dimensional...
What's with the hatred here? Gnome 3 is a technological disaster and it's extension system a ticking security time bomb. Unity is currently the only usable, modern desktop on Linux that doesn't break two months down the road because of incompatible extensions. On the other hand, maybe Canonical can put some sanity back into project.
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I assume "14000 documents" is one repo checkout.
SystemD is definitely attacked as NIH (and every other pejorative people can think of). And zfs fans say btrfs is NIH, etc, etc. I'd say RedHat gets just as much flak in that regard as Canonical.
It's a different employee. The article doesn't mention whether or not Kshirsagar has invoked the 5th amendment.
Also, if you already have virtually unlimited money loosing the job doesn't seem so bad.
They need to recoup their losses from giving all those copies of 10 away for free.
This isn't about criminals exactly. It's about an engineer thinking "My future job is going to be a huge pain without access to the shared drive that has all our notes and matlab scripts and research papers. Maybe I'll just make a copy and keep it for occasional reference in case I need to look something up.".
That's fine; but the silliness is the "convergence" mantra. Different devices have different requirements, one size does not fit all; if you don't have the will to spend on multiple teams to build different gui shells, don't get in the game.

Microsoft learnt this the hard way, almost losing its desktop dominance to the chimera of converged UI; and it looks like all desktop vendors are slowly reaching similar conclusions.
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Competition is always good, we noticed some non canonical projects getting speed when Canonical launched alternatives.
1. Agreed. However, it looks really bad for them as a company to behave this way toward their users, both back in 2010 when they moved away from Gnome and now in 2017 when they're moving back. Both moves have been done without regard for and without consulting with the community. For a FOSS company, that's bad business and I think it will hurt their bottom line in the long run.

2. I think these are two unrelated points. To clarify:

a. Canonical hyped Convergence and Ubuntu Phone, but never delivered on the hype. That's bad, both for their company image as well as for the entire FOSS community as a whole. It makes us seem like a joke.

b. They shipped Unity. Now, they're trying to un-ship it. They've handled the entire situation very poorly. Not upset that they did ship, just saddened by the way the entire situation was handled.

I would argue that Ubuntu is the de-facto standard for cloud and IOT. They've achieved a ton of success in becoming a standard at least there.

No one is saying that didn't try. What I'm asking is: Should the community give Canonical a gold star for trying? Will opponents of FOSS software? I don't think so, because overall the failed hype around Ubuntu Phone and Convergence just looks bad and I think Canonical has handled the entire situation since 2010 very poorly.

Not sure I quite understand what you mean by, "We cannot always have our cake and eat it too." Personally, I just wanted Canonical to follow through with the hype and deliver on Convergence and Ubuntu Phone.
Well, that is already in the setup, there is also a 100 % chance that the other side is tails. I don't think that observation will turn out to be very useful.
Kibana has quite a few rough edges but it takes non-technical users very far in terms of data exploration. Local setup also alleviates privacy concerns.
The bummer is import/export: 'Upload CSV' feature has been almost introduced in 5.0 release but removed in the end [1], and CSV export has been asked for many times [2] but is still not there. So a user-friendly fork might be a worthy business idea.

[1]: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/8497
[2]: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1992
Exactly. The Deck had great, non-intrusive adds. And they generally plugged good products. I clicked on just about everything I saw on Daring Fireball, both out of support for Gruber and because I was often introduced to new and interesting products. If done right, even an add agency can establish dedicated customers.
My (limited) understanding is that Gnome includes Wayland as an integral component, and so reverting to Gnome as default desktop for 18.04 will preclude use of the Mir graphical server.
I don't disagree, but my point is this: Finding these files on Uber servers certainly is, if not proof of guilt, at least very damning. However, lack of files on Uber servers isn't proof of innocence.
I think you have to be careful here. It's entirely unclear how small dose exposure over long times damage humans. There might be a threshold effect: Some people speculated that low doses actually help, as they trigger the DNA self-repair systems. Slightly more, and that self-repair can't help anymore. So 1 Chernobyl might be fine for people further way, let's say, in the US, 2 or 10 or ... and you suddenly get a lot of Cancer deaths.

If you look at what medicine deemed as safe, the limits were reduced every couple of years.
If you then went to work at a competitor and the competitor claimed that you were copying their trade secrets, then it would certainly be relevant.
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Hi Dustin, sorry for offtopic but why not use MATE, you have some MATE developers working for Canonical and I think Ubuntu MATE is more popular then the Gnome version.
I think we need less auditing of other people's word choice, to be honest.

/meta
It would also help with downvote-brigading if it cost something to vote it down.
they like the absence of all of gnome's chrome and the smooth animations and transitions.

me, i like gnome 3 and unity. all told i think this is really good news from canonical, for wayland, for gnome, for desktop linux in general, etc.
White-box cryptography
I don't know much about how a developer should try to build a secure application from the get-go. I don't think I've ever worked on or assessed a codebase where that plan worked.

I did the challenges years ago when you had to email in for them. Since then I can count at least five occasions where having done the challenges has allowed me to identify vulnerabilities in real-world crypto. I was usually able to recommend fixes that in theory made those codebases more secure. This is keeping in mind that I'm at best a hobbyist security researcher and just barely a professional developer.

I think there are about seven or eight people on Earth that I would trust to securely implement cryptography in their code. For the rest of us I'm happy with doing the best we can with libraries that make that easy (NaCl), and otherwise trying to find ways to break the thing. The cryptopals challenges help you do that, so that's where I'd recommend a developer start.
Just sort search results by torrent popularity. People aren't going to seed bad content.
The barrier to entry in the smartphone OS market is just too high for a small company to have a chance. Mozilla learned this, and now Canonical has too.

Neglecting the core product to pursue a phone OS that was very unlikely to succeed was bad for the company.
It certainly makes better use of space than the thick header bars that gnome ships with by default. At least one Gnome developer seems to think so too https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2015/10/17/time-to-use-he...
I wonder how much of that is the point of this exercise--to make the employee look guilty as hell.
I made a game[1] as a hobby with Phaser and packaged it with NW.js. I worked on it for about six months, but not as a commercial project. I haven't done any marketing or advertising. I've made about $8 US from the game passively existing, which I'm quite happy with.

[1] https://danbolt.itch.io/superradishwitch
I like apt more than rpm, and Ubuntu is slightly easier to install for a desktop and to know what the correct/current version is than Debian.
`grid-row: -2` targets the bottom-most row, whereas I would have expected `grid-row: -1` to do so. I've never seen `-2` used to refer to the last element in a sequence. Python [1,2,3][-1] yields 3, for example.

Anybody have an explanation for this surprising behavior?
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> Offhand, this kind of sounds like a parent asking their teenager to go and search their own room for drugs.

I have expressed this attitude to corporate lawyers before, and asked them how the system deals with bad actors.

Basically, if a judge catches you lying during discovery, they can issue a default judgement against you and impose very serious additional damages. For example:

http://newenglandinhouse.com/2015/06/09/default-judgment-aff...

Furthermore, the lawyers in question can be disbarred:

https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/litigationnews/civil...

A sufficiently annoyed judge has a broad range of sanctions available for punishing people who get caught gaming the system. (Some of these sanctions may take years to fully play out, though.)
really? I've used uber a lot and I've never had anyone harass me for tips.
Care to name a point where a blockchain stood between MSS and Chinese dissidents? NSA and islamic radicalizers? SVR and someone Putin wants dead?

I'm stoked about blockchains as much as anyone else (heck, I quit a job at Google and spent a year playing with them when Bitcoin first came on the scene). But to say that they are a good thing to build on top of when facing adversaries that have 7 figure USD budgets and capabilities to perform active attacks on non-trivial chunks of the internet strikes me as just a bit naive.
Judge Alsup's comments on pages 14 and 15 of the transcript mirror the statement you're attempting to discredit. Perhaps it is a bit more concerning when the argument is made by the trier-of-fact himself.
Nice catch. Yeah, I do something like that too in my own code, though it does not cause issues when minified.
I'm with you. I'd like a fully free software stack across my personal devices, and I also thought that Ubuntu had the best chance of achieving this. I think the issue is in a business model that would work for Canonical.

OTOH, most of the hard work is done. My Ubuntu Phone mostly works. The stack is complete. I'd love to see interested people taking that code and keeping it going. I'd spend spare time on contributing if this were to happen.

(I'm a Canonical employee and Ubuntu developer, but not on the convergence/desktop/phone side, and my opinions here are my own and not that of my employer)
CoreOS and RancherOS have shown how everything can either be built into the base OS image or running in Docker, with no system packages needed.
I assume your response was addressed to the parent post? I didn't think I was passing any judgement on the Tatas. I was asking why the Tata name was brought up in the first place.
The Apache Software Foundation is in no way shape or form a business. It's a non-profit with maybe 1 or 2 full-time people (last I recall) and tons of people who commit to projecs.
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Gotta admit- it's really cool. But I still more often than not fire up a linux under virtualbox on my windows box. I'm actually pretty delighted at how well vb works.
Unless you are inlining your CSS.
Where is the source of Ansible Tower?
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Red Bull is attached to airplane races both legitimate and fanciful. They are not as out of place on that list as you first imagine.
Yes, Qt looks good in Gnome because Qt tries to use your system dialogs and icons , GTK does not respect the user enough and it will use it's own dialogs on all systems. This is not only about the look but also the fact that my native dialogs are customized( shortcuts ) and those are missing from GTK apps dialogs
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What do you mean that Linux releases lag behind by a few months?

Which products? Firefox and Thunderbird are updating constantly and I don't see a difference between Linux and Windows there.
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I read this so often, but I have no idea why people think that.

* dnf's basic commands are all obvious: install, search, update and info - unlike the seperation between apt-get and apt-cache

* dnf automatically fetches and updates the repo cache

* dnf can rollback entire transactins

* dnf supports delta-upgrades, which speed up things a lot on slower connections

* dnf makes unattended upgrades easy (just add -y), apt may still ask questions even with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

The new apt tool improves on some of these issues, but dnf is still a much better tool in my opinion.
HTTP/2 will make the Internet faster. So why the slow adoption?
If you are serious about reducing C02 then you are serious about using nuclear power.
Here you go.

https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/
They should use Cinnamon, or just absorb Mint, that's the most popular distro right now anyway, and it is ubuntu-based.
I'm working on one, though I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of the day. I have four months of free time and if someone would feed and house me for that time, I'd do it and open source it.

Any sponsors? No? Didn't think so. Not even you, big G? Aww...

For now some minifiers do sort the values, which helps.
Given that your example has essentially no similarity with the situation in question, why would you ask?

That is not a rhetorical question - I'm pretty sure you're capable of distinguishing the facts of the Waymo case[1] from "some documents ...[from] several years ago".

So, why?

[1] Meetings and other shady activity before quitting, logs of ~14k documents pulled, immediate aqui-hire, etc. etc. etc.
> 2) Easy to use: I mean normal-human easy, no programmer-easy

Which I just don't see, few things make me feel less competent than "simple" configuration of an add-on or theme. Maybe I'm just used to overly complicated interfaces, but everytime I have to touch a wordpress install I know its going to be a few hours of frustration.
I'm personally using a tiling window manager (StumpWM, in my case, but dwm & i3 are both nice too). It feels, in every way, like the future of desktop interaction. And it's a lot lighter-weight than the GNOME desktop.

Doesn't do as much, granted, but isn't that kinda the point?
I’m sure this can all be done in Excel... except I don’t know how, and will sooner reach for Python when faced with a task like this.

Definitely will have a look when a Linux version is available.
If you like your desktops and your servers to have the same underpinnings, the difference between debian and redhat will likely be there forever.
And I will mention it one more time: I totally agree with you. It needs to be said.
Maybe we should eat more turnips and string beans?
I have a feeling they cut a lot of these things in trying to reduce the install footprint when netbooks/tablets were all the rage.
I prefer it there.. if Windows start menu weren't weird on the left, I'd have it there too... my mac dock is on the left as well. I have more horizontal space than I typically use, while vertical is at a premium.
Except this wasn't found on Levandowski's machine (the guy who sold Octo.)
`order` is a little bit different though as it doesn't set the position. Instead "Elements are laid out in the ascending order of the order value". So an element with order: 1 will move to the end in a group of elements with no order defined, similar to z-index I guess.

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/5uvpco6e/
Is there any reason this tool couldn't be 100% client-side?
If that would be possible we would not have MATE or people/projects droping GTK for Qt, Gnome has a vision and it will follow it, and a big chunk of people like it for some reason.
Aww... Thanks!

My pleasure! All from scratch, designed for nothing but readability.

I am building textbooks on the same code, so the blog is a great stress and user test.
Checking each single applicant's offenses and determining wether it's relevant or not for their driver position takes a lot more time/money. If you want an automated process that guarantees the security of your customer aka the passengers as much as possible for the lowest cost possible you just eliminate anyone with "qualifying" offense. This is not more conservative than it is efficient.