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I've always wondered why avocados have so much marketing behind them ("Avocados from Mexico" commercials). Seems like they would be in the same boat as other natural foods. I guess it hasn't bothered me enough to do the research, though.
Uber is basically pleading the fifth. Hahahahaha
oh. why did those ideas seem like they were intended to stockpile poor people into shitty buses?
I also sighed with relief. Generally this is what happens with Linux desktop through several technologies compete and one comes through after a while as the winner. Now that Wayland is actually shipping and with the whole community shortly behind it I hope to see some nice improvements in the Linux desktop in the next few years.

If someone could fix Network Manager that would be nice though...
We have weird words.
The discussion is happening on their slack community channel. Sign up and see answers from the CEO here: https://matchpool.slack.com
I've thought for a long time that somehow there was a movie to be made around hackathons. Now I know it has to be the code slinging hackathon pro who falls for the female corporate coder attending her first event and together they win a million dollar prize.
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-mir.html
I'm surprised to see so few recommendations for libsodium. https://download.libsodium.org/doc/

For pretty much any crypto task that a "run-of-the-mill programmer" is likely to run into, they've got you covered.

Secret key encryption: https://download.libsodium.org/doc/secret-key_cryptography/a...

Password hashing: https://download.libsodium.org/doc/password_hashing/
Doesn't really help that there's a source website if there's not a sane process for actually submitting PRs and merging patches, and apparently there isn't one.
I get the feeling 2017 is going to be a very entertaining (from a news perspective) year for tech.
There is no difference.

From the top of my head in the last few years I have (and you have also probably) used the following to get software: rpm/yum, deb/apt, pacman, ports, sysvr4(Solaris), ips, homebrew, pkgin, npm, gem, pip, hex, cpan and hmmm probably a few others.

They all do pretty much the same thing, one might have prettier progress bars or a better cli but we're just talking compressed tars with some metadata files.

Competition is good and all that, but how much innovation do we need to drive in package managers? We have lots of tools all doing the same thing with negligible advantages over their competitors and I don't see it as a positive.
You could recreate the experience for younger colleagues using a slackware install and deliberately not using any of the more advanced tools (slackpkg+ &c) and hiding the existence of slackbuild scripts.
I like good investigative journalism and frustrated I can't pay to support it.

For instance, WSJ endlessly sticks paywall for recycled news.

Some journalists risk their lives for the sake of jouranlism.

https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side

This was posted a while back on HN and we talked about how to support such journalists that take actual risks which needs to be rewarded.
Incentivize anything and someone will specialize at getting that incentive eventually.
Debian also has an impressive reputation for quality. In many cases it has achieved, through its vast user and developer network, what Red Hat could only achieve through paid staff and commercial resources.

But this is not true in all areas, especially in some aspects that matter to companies such as training/certification and having good up-to-date documentation.

And as a volunteer-driven project, I don't think Debian can ever be as responsive to end-user problems or requirements as a commercial product can be.

But it definitely gives Red Hat a good run for its money. For example, the Debian LAMP stack has long been and still is the gold standard.
Using std::array is writing code C++ way. If you know size of the array compile time and you know it will fit the stack then there is no reason to use std::vector.
Hackathons were a thing when they were an engineering event... an engineering holiday to work on something worth working on. Like undoing some technical debt mess or a long standing hack that you cannot fix during a sprint.

But now most hackathons are just implementing features with technical debt, which is the kind of engineering nobody likes.

Then, cheating in hackathons is incredibly hard to detect. Even if you force everyone to use version control and review what they did over time, there can always be the cooking show trick where suddenly you pull a finished important part from nowhere.

That's why I think hackathons should be engineering events, organized by engineers not the regular company hierarchy, and rewards should be given on engineering value not how much a feature can potentially sell.
You're mixing apples and oranges here. There's a difference between committing fraud to get a true story and printing something the government decides isn't true.
Where does putting a paywall in front of your content fall on your laziness ranking?
Hallelujah!!!
In the end I'm striving for a larger sample size.

I did not build in any 'hard' differentiator for source, but I should be able to get a feel for the distribution by the timestamp of answers, as I tried to space out the submissions to social media sites. I'll try to remember that for when it's time to publish the results.
I don't hear it while audio is playing either since it's drowned out -- never do a build or something and hear it?

It really annoys me, I'm surprised you don't hear it. Maybe not all devices are susceptible then?
I never liked Unity and I'm comfortable with Gnome, so I think this change is good.

But, fer cryin out loud, Ubuntu, how many goddamn times do you need to change things around? UI? init system? Firewall management? It goes on and on.

This is the stuff of nightmares if you manage more than one distro version, and I feel I'm starting to slowly hate this distribution, even though I use it a lot and it works great (provided you remember which version does what all the time).

Their leadership projects a weak, hesitant image. There's no one at the rudder and the ship is being blown by the winds every which way.
Why not both?

I'm happy they are dropping it, but disappointed that they started altogether. That's a lot of time we as a community could have been working together, but weren't. I can be disappointed in those "lost" years, but happy that we're done with them.
Gitlab is not open source.
I don't think it is possible to be Open Source without being Free Software, and vice versa. At least I've never seen it done.
A laser beam for Java 8
I also used del.icio.us and after doing a couple of custom solutions I ended with simple browser's folders... you might want to look into pinboard though
TIL, thank you!
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I saw a talk a while back with Glen Keane – legendary Disney Animator – called "The Principles of UX Choreography". [1]

It was fascinating. The Disney Principles of animation went beyond 'looks good', and existed to solve real problems – like helping the audience follow the action.

1: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-principles-of-ux-choreog...
I do not agree. I've been using ubuntu gnome for over a year now, and with a few extensions (dash to dock), which are officially supported, I find it extremely usable and stable.
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Mozilla should be considered in similar category to Red Hat. They make almost half as much in the hundreds of millions range. That's focusing on search revenue instead of doing lots of products like Red Hat does. If they did that for enterprise, they'd probably be in the billion a year situation Red Hat is. Especially now that the competitors are surveillance engines & they could differentiate w/ paid offering. Even per organization rather than per user. Plus value-added services like encrypted backups.

They have a lot of potential that's underutilized.
Was anyone forcing you to use Unity against your wishes? Why are you glad I have one less option? In fact it was my daily driver for quite a while, I'm pretty sad about the news.
I have built both debs and rpms and I like rpms more. Both aren't perfect though (still so much fiddling around with Bash in pre/post scripts for doing anything more then extracting a bunch of files).
I use supervisord a lot as well, though I actually had issues getting it up and running on the latest Ubuntu. It seems that it isn't enabled immediately after installation via apt-get, but has to be manually enabled. Minor hiccup, but a small pain.

edit: specifically, I think this was my issue: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/735

which seems to be patched now.
Seriously. When they announced Unity, the only thing I could think of was "too many cooks in the kitchen." I have no trouble with choice, but too many options is devastatingly fragmenting. The investment should have gone with Gnome to begin with, as Ubuntu had already made the commitment to that project.
> “Thousands of people in Massachusetts have lost access to economic opportunities as a result of a screening that includes an unfair and unjust indefinite look-back period,” an Uber spokeswoman said today. “We have an opportunity to repair the current system in the rules process so that people who deserve to work are not denied the opportunity.”

Given all of the negative press about Uber lately, you'd think they'd give some more thought before publicly defending the right of sex offenders, people with suspended licenses, and people with multiple serious driving offenses to work as taxi drivers.
Does anyone have a view as to how much deep kernels might be useful for riding to the rescue for the rest of us?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00336
I think the stupid decision was to stick with in interface you hate instead of going for an alternative distro that uses GNOME for a desktop environment, but I'm glad it panned out for you in the end.
Actually we are a $2.xB revenue company ;-)
Micropayment tipping and subscriptions seem like features that should be part of the browser with standardized DOM APIs. Mozilla considered a website subscription feature back in 2014 called "Subscribe2Web".

https://air.mozilla.org/subscribe2web/
> Pretty remarkable growth in PV!

No wonder. They have PV on almost every roof. Most of them have the south facing part fully covered as well.
Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems.

But not in Wayland. I'm happily using Redshift in Cinnamon (one of the other things keeping me on Cinnamon), but the fact remains that having it built into the distro makes it more readily accessible to everyone.
Yeah, I can understand how that's confusing. I meant to convey two things:

1. I mean to imply that it was a waste - they created a bunch of controversy, and for what? If they were not committed to Unity for the long-haul, they should never had made the switch away from Gnome in the first place.

2. In the intervening years since 2010, a ton of people have come to use Unity and gotten used to it instead of Gnome, and now Canonical is pulling the rug out from under those people. This whiplash, knee-jerk approach is just a horrible way to treat your users and is very disappointing.

This behavior reminds me of MS forcing Metro UI on people in Windows 8 for years and then (mostly) abandoning it without ceremony in Win 10. I don't expect MS to care about anything other than the bottom line, but I had hoped for more from Canonical.
> The most common reason for rejecting a potential driver was a suspended license [on their record]

A previously suspended license flunks the background check? I've had mine suspended for failing to pay a parking ticket that was never mailed to me. Kind of a lame reason to never be able to drive for lyft or uber.
It feels so good to not have to look at that book with the guy on a horse, to get networking going every time I installled a new distro, or sometimes upgrading. Especially because I usually didn't know what I was doing to fix the issue, I didn't even know what I was looking for.

Thanks to everyone who did read that book and others cover to cover (or wrote them), so that my linux install just works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Network_Administrator's_...
I also once won a NASA-related hackathon (SpaceApps Philly), and my prize was a flight suit, but TBH that's honestly kinda cooler than cash.
Down-voted for talking truth about the largest mass murders of the 20th century. Kind of makes you not want to be here, doesn't it?
The difference is that Ubuntu is already the de-facto dominant player here. As far as AWS goes, the Canonical Ubuntu AMI is the most popular one, except maybe the default Amazon one.
It's been a few months since I saw the original, and I've been watching SAC in the meantime. The Major is a little different between the two, but they're similar enough it's hard for me to remember the differences. I could be mixing things around, but I believe in both she regarded her cybernetic body as just a tool that she was very skilled at using.

The live-action movie goes beyond that. She feels that not only is her body a product of the people who created it, but that her mind is too. When she's chastised for a poor decision she made, she literally responds "Well, maybe next time you can design me better."

More broadly, I think the difference between the two films are very clearly reflected best in her IMDB quotes. http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0010863/quotes
From a hustler perspective its genius. People install your add-on to block ads and then you SELL advertisers the right to get whitelisted. Genius move.

That being said, I also switched to uBlock and I owe Adblock plus nothing.
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 and is actively committing crimes in discovery to prevent the discovery from working. Not only is it not an unbiased source, it's basically a source being paid to be biased. Which is fine; I am generally down with the philosophy of adversarial justice. But you shouldn't read much of anything at all into that quote.

For those of us on the outside, while we are justified in considering that a possible hypothesis, we are also justified in looking at the facts and considering that it may indeed be the case that these documents were never given to Uber. I for one have no trouble believing that the documents were downloaded by an individual but that they were never given to Uber, as I rather suspect "keeping more than one really ought from one's previous job but never raising to the level of actually giving that stuff to one's next employer" is really quite common.
Nobody was forcing you to use it. I found Unity had the best usability from all the OSes, including macOS and Windows.
Mastodon is dead in the water
It's crazy that Uber would make such a fuss about this and characterize it as merely a matter of depriving putative drivers of income. Yes, there will almost certainly be instances in which the indefinite look-back period or criminal history criteria would lead to an arguably unfair outcome for a particular driver. However, surely that would be an issue for only a very small proportion of people. Even if it isn't, I can't help but take the utilitarian approach and err on the side of caution.
It was losing tens of millions just a few years ago to try to get into mobile. The financials are also private. Doesn't leave me much to go on. :)
i use opera's system to sync as it lets me browse all of my machine's individual bookmark folders. Keeps things clean at work, but everything quick to access.

if i had to switch (and could install the plugin on the work pc) i'd use xmarks
My biggest gripe with Ubuntu has been duplicated in Mageia, I'm not likely to switch back.
> do buses really wear the roads less than cars?

You're right! I stand corrected. Thank you.

Here's a quotation I found: "When discussing road wear cars don't matter: road damage is effectively caused by trucks"

From: http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/courses2/crp776...

What if I change it to: more small buses running more often? Maybe that addresses the problem of buses stopping absurdly often too.
I'm not concluding that "the EU is just as bad as the US", and really, I can't see how you could possibly come to that conclusion after reading my comments.

Yes, on average pretty much any part of the EU is better when it comes to homicide statistics. All I've been pointing out that from looking at the homicide & gun death statistics in the US you can't conclude that guns are important variable driving those statistics.

> we're [..] not talking about suicides [...]
> Stop injecting them into the discussion.

You're the one who started injecting suicides into the discussion. In your earlier comment[1] you said, in response to a graph[2] I posted that included non-suicide numbers, which is the part I was citing, that the "lowest groups are 2-7". Those numbers include gun suicides, whereas I wasn't talking about that at all but the other data on the page which shows gun homicide statistics similar to the Dutch 0.58.

But since you muddied the water by bringing up these unrelated suicide numbers, I started to itemize the suicide & the non-suicide you were conflating them with, and now a few comments later you're complaining about my discussing something you brought up in the first place.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034308

2. http://projects.oregonlive.com/ucc-shooting/gun-deaths
What New&Better™ Apple API are you thinking of when it comes to mutexes? There's no reason for Apple to duplicate the functionality already provided by POSIX just for the sake of having a proprietary API.

> Conformance with a standard doesn't just happen on a whim

I genuinely don't understand what argument you're trying to make here. Apple is in compliance with POSIX. You seem to still be arguing from the position of "Windows and Linux behave in a certain way, therefore that way is correct", which is, quite frankly, bullshit.
Have you tried Software Collection? More up to date software, but not supported for 10y as RHEL is
The author can get paid for writing about OpenSSL here, because it's in line with their employer's interests? That's different here.
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Did they even play against a human player? I didn't see results from person vs bot matches.
8000 employees for uber in a single state is not a small proportion.
(Disclaimer: I don't work for Canonical, I just use Ubuntu for my work.)
I think it will end up like so:

* apt/dpkg will remain the base packaging software on desktop and server. They're well-tested and familiar.

* flatpak will become the primary format for installing desktop software outside of repo. This'll be nice for some large open-source projects that cause grief for distro packagers, and will also give companies a single target for major Linux desktops. Flatpak is too narrowly-targeted to replace snap in all cases snap was designed for.

* snap will become a mechanism for image-based application deployment, primarily IoT.

* docker/lxd/whatever will be used to target immutable deployments, primarily servers.
I just want graphics stack that doesn't lag, supports window manager with tiling features.
It's called a browser.
Diffusing resources. In this case one good option might be better than 2 mediocre options.
As someone who applauds this pivot, I never saw much value in the whole convergence idea. Why would I want my laptop and phone to be the same device? This seems to follow the misguided idea in software that if two ideas are similar, just make a single generic idea that solves both problems. But then you get into leaky abstractions and have to make lots of sacrifices to get it working well for both use cases.
>...it may indeed be the case that these documents were never given to Uber.

Then they should have their legal team pilloried and set ablaze for advising them to be this cagey.
Found it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631

Can't find a cached version of the actual ubuntu article though.

Edit: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6qrnN...

No mention of mir though?
Yes, and presenting a literal burnt red hat seems neither imaginative nor compelling.
Huh. Maybe I'll move back upstream to Ubuntu. Although at this point LinuxMint works fine for me, so it's hard to see a compelling reason. But Ubuntu's desktop games are what finally drove me out, as a desktop.
Please please please remember, that for most people animations are not smooth. They are an annoyance and a barrier to using an interface at any speed.

They can be useful for hiding transitions for things that are slow. However instead of engineering an animation stack, make the backend faster....

cough linkedin, salesforce, workday cough
No, they were rejected because they don't currently have an active license.
but dominant != revenue generating. Sure they make decent money with juju if you're needing help setting up openstack. Juju is actually underrated for what it does, and the engineers have done impressive work. But of "90%" of the startups using the Ubuntu AMIs on AWS, how many of them are actively paying Canonical anything at all?

Meanwhile, old boring Redhat just made 2 billion dollars in revenue and is still just slowly improving.
"do they have the autonomy to avoid being similarly subverted in the future? Not rhetorical, I genuinely don't know how they are governed/if they can refuse the "help" of the 3 letter agencies."

It could happen to anyone if it's about receiving bad advice from an authority with a conflict of interest. That's why the solution is to either produce good advice for each of the things they're talking about or vet their advice to see if it contains any problems.

"what they lost in a backdoor, they gained in a chilling effect on the spread of good crypto practices by staining NIST's reputation."

I never thought about that. I doubt they intended that but it might be a real benefit for SIGINT side. That's interesting enough angle I'm going to bring it up to regulars on Schneier's blog who discussed the NIST stuff a lot.
That's a shame. I prefer the current Unity (16.10) interface to the other available options. It's simple, clean and intuitive IMO.

Haven't looked at Gnome since the disaster that was 3, having previously used it exclusively. Here's hoping it has improved (dramatically) since. Unity is lightyears ahead of where Gnome was last time I checked.
I spent some time studying the subject a few years ago. Most of the current efforts I saw were about improving alias analysis. Could have been a skewed view of the thing, but the researchers I talked to seemed to feel like it was. Some compiler devs I've talked to do too.

In general it does unlock a lot of opportunities when it comes to optimization.
Does anyone know of a redhat style model but not for enterprise? Like small businesses and individuals.
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It doesn't automatically follow that all the developers that were working on Unity will now be working on Gnome.
The advantage of Ubuntu LTS is that you can upgrade it to a non-LTS. Also good for branding that both are "Ubuntu".

I'd love if CentOS / RHEL would become Fedora LTS.
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There's an old joke about a girl named Megan E. Cummings, who successfully petitioned for a change to her university e-mail, which had been auto-generated according to the scheme `substr($LASTNAME, 6).$FIRSTINIT.$MIDINIT`.
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