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I'll concur with the others on wifi network support.

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Improved wifi network support

- DESCRIPTION: Most of the time I don't have an issue, but occasionally (ok once a month at the venue that hosts our Java developer group) I have network issues that I never had when this laptop was running windows (7 or 10). Basically at this one location I can't stay hooked up to the network for more than 5 minutes without a disconnect, none of the windows/mac users around me have an issue.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer.
If you dont get your news from PBS/NPR first, _then_ major ad driven media as supplemental in the US, I honestly think you are doing yourself a disservice. People like their own echo chambers over being challenged to think analytically.

*not to imply PBS/NPR isnt slightly bias
Sprig Startup don't pay their drivers
http://gbdhlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/news/Complaint-for-Damages-.pdf

Sprig, SF based food delivery startup, got sued by its workers. It didn't pay overtime, allow for breaks, reimbursing expenses, etc.
Hmm. I assume some transformation happens before they end up as docker images or AMI images.

In any case, what I'm asking for is some conversation between Canonical and Docker, Amazon, etc. To see if there's something obvious either side can do to skinny these down. The ubuntu image is for sure the most popular AMI, and I imagine one of the most popular docker ones. The collective bandwidth and time gain of optimizing the size would be significant. Currently, the ubuntu images are significantly larger than other popular images.
I would absolutely be in favor of #1 and #3.
No pressure!
sudo apt-get install redshift redshift-gtk
Do you have a source for this? I own a GoPro and I love the little thing, but I had no idea they were able to withstand this kind of stress.
> - Can't rent out the property.

> - Property needs to undergo repair.

> - Tenants don't pay rent, destroy the property.

> - Liquidity risk: property is not as easy to sell as many other goods, in case of emergency.

I think only the last one is a real problem. If you buy your own house, then you are your own tenant and your interests align with yourself. You won't destroy the property or leave it empty.

Liquidity is going to be a real risk in the coming negative equity / house price crash however. People forget that not only do house prices go down, but houses become difficult to sell at any acceptable price.
> If this goes though, can we sure car, knife, and anything else manufacturers?

Suing (and sometimes winning, more to the point) manufacturers and retailers who profit from unlawful acts of their customers knowingly, and often with reason that they should have known, is already possible under the law.

More than 20 years ago when I worked at Radio Shack the employee orientation included a piece on this.
If you have specific privacy complaints about Chrome, spill it. Content-free finger pointing like this isn't constructive.
There were anti-gentrification laws passed like in the city I'm and some of the first ring suburbs about 10 years. There was fear-mongering about people "destroying the charm of quaint 1960's neighborhoods of small single family houses" by knocking down to build larger, 3 story houses in their place.
It most likely is because it is incredible hard to create realistic fake traffic. The moment you start using such a tool is probably very easy to detect due to a sudden jump in traffic. Then you can use prior data to figure out what you were actually doing - sites you visit, times you are active times, how you switch between sites, how long you stay on sites, and so on. Randomly following links will show very different distributions.

You have to fake your browsing behavior with pretty high accuracy but if you do that, you defeat the entire purpose, you just created a copy of your browsing behavior. Maybe if there is no prior knowledge of your browsing behavior and the fake traffic is human-like enough, but even in that case it seems not too unlikely that one could separate the two traffic sources. If you want to hide your browsing behavior, the fake traffic must be different from yours. But if there is a difference, the difference can potentially be exploited to separate the sources.
I call metaphor fight.

We don't need a metaphor to understand this news story. A guy made a convenient remote access program. He released it into a lightweight "hacker" forum. He tried to prevent people from using it in ways he didn't like which includes criminal ways. The FBI wants to nail him more because they can reach him than because they truly believe he did anything wrong. There are grounds for debate depending on how you weight the facts we've been given, to say nothing of facts we don't have. Etc. These metaphors are not accomplishing anything.
I want to see project management build in at the OS level.

By this I mean being able to completely segment my workflow between screens as follows:

Screen 1: Work

- Email filtered for work
- All programs automatically put files into the project's folder
- Docker containers and even separate localhost so I can bind to port 80 on different screens.
- Different Browser history

Screen 2: Startup Project

- Same but everything focused on my startup project
- Task manager built in.

Screen 3: Social media, hacker news and messing around and other email

- Limited to 15 minutes in any hour.

Programs can tie into tasks and tasks can be shared between people.

Not much to ask hey, but building in GTD at the OS level would be awesome ;-)
This isnt true. He was very popular before reality tv was a thing.
Has Silicon Valley Hit a Plateau?
For Google, the AI Talent Race Leads Straight to Canada
The problem I don't hear anyone talking about is the continuing underestimation of new media, and it's effect on society. My generation can't wait to cut the cord. But we still think CNN and Fox are leading the narrative, and they still think they are leading the narrative, but I find out about news on The Rubin Report or Joe Rogan's podcast way before I happen to pass by an old tv at the gym turned to CNN. These aren't news sources, they don't claim to be, but I end up first hearing about events with their spin for better or for worse. I take things with a grain of salt because I understand they're just entertainment, but it's a slippery slope that I can see people getting further and further entrenched in Vice's take, or Alex Jones's take, etc...
HN article above this one: "Going faster doesn’t make you happier.." :)
I am quite interested in "how" the working hours are spent, rather than how many. Personally, it's when I forget about time, that I am more efficient, engaged and satisfied. Today I cleaned my house for 5 hours and almost forgot it suppose to be daunting.

Did the same trick, imagining I have plenty of time. Just taking my time...
Thank you! Remember how cosy each administration is with their left/right leaning media publications.
- FLAVOR: Desktop

1. HEADLINE: Allow users to setup a caching drive in the standard installation process

Currently, the setup process for creating a caching drive(I have a 16gb SSD in addition to my HDD) is very convoluted, with lots of conflicting information about how to setup bcache. Even after finally getting it working, my computer will still hang occasionally when RAM is maxed out and the cache drive has to write to HDD
Windows isn't the best at multi-DPI in general though either. Only recently did Firefox on Windows get multi-DPI support - not sure if Chrome does yet because I gave up on it and went to dual 4K because the scaling was easier. If you want to see really good multi-DPI support, OSX is really good at it with most apps supporting it out of the box.

Multi-DPI is kind of a hack in general though and is likely to cause issues unless applications have been tested for it very thoroughly, it causes serious issues on major frameworks like Electron and Qt - though both of their support for it is improving slowly. If you want things to work smoothly for now, try to stick to 1 DPI setting.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: No Suggestion to download the apps from Store
- DESCRIPTION: Nowadays ads are everywhere, from your 'explorer' to 'dashboard'. Why can;t we have an option where we can disabled the 'suggested app' feature in the app launcher.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Just a design student. I can design interfaces/menus/options to turn on-off, basically a switch with a good UX
I want an intuition of a concept in mathematics that isn't the same as the formal definition.

I gave a specific example (Baye's) - being able to juggle the symbols is entirely different from interpretation.

If you want the difference between an intuition and formalization, consider the "Copenhagen interpretation" which is non-mathematical, yet is based on mathematically formalised concepts.
Presumably because Chrome has a dominant market share. Meet people where they are.
- FLAVOR: All?

- HEADLINE: Stop releasing every six months. Instead, have an LTS, like you already do, and then a rolling release that is conservative and battle-tested, like Gentoo does.

To help with the rolling release, create an infrastructure that allows you to progressively release updates that could cause problems to some users (like an evdev -> libinput or a GNOME 3.22 -> 3.24 transition)
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Windows has recently integrated this in the 'creators update' as a feature. Would be nice to see Ubuntu follow suit.
The last hollow laugh
Changes in quantity can be changes in quality. You're right, all FB did is virtualize social interaction.

But now you can interact orders of magnitude faster and with more people with it, thus changing the nature of interacting.
- FLAVOUR: Desktop

1. - HEADLINE: Thumbnails in file upload window

1. - DESC: I can't preview thumbnails in the file upload window in Firefox or Chrome (Ubuntu 16.10 here)

2. - HEADLINE: Built-in flux-like settings

2. - DESC: Would like to be able to control blue-light with a native program, as I have had problems with flux (it doesn't seem to be developed with Ubuntu or Linux in mind)

3. - HEADLINE: Exfat support in kernel

3. - DESC: Some devices I use unfortunately are set to use exfat and I can't change them, current exfat support is pretty bad, so please get this working nicely

4. - HEADLINE: Bcachefs support in kernel

4. - DESC: I have been reading about this new and interesting fs, it seems like a good thing to add.

5. - HEADLINE: Add more i/o schedulers to the kernel

5. - DESC: The current choice of i/o schedulers in the mainline kernel is not great, add some popular ones.

6. - HEADLINE: I HATE the current archive manager, please change it or fix it

6. - DESC: The archive manager in 16.10 has to be the worst component by FAR, it is always crashing and doesn't support many archive types out of the box, so please do something about this, as I guess a lot of people depend on this, but it is SO shoddy that I am sure others feel my pain.

7. - HEADLINE: Please try to stop the NIH syndrome of Ubuntu

7. - DESC: for lucky number 7, please stop with the NIH mentality that is prevalent in Ubuntu, sometimes you don't make the best decisions and the rest of the Linux community does, don't let arrogance or your dominance over the Linux marketshare push you into making stupid decisions (see Mir) that go against the general trend in a bad way. Some of us just want an easy-to-use efficient Linux, if you keep making us choose between your weird decisions and comfort, there will come a point where we make the same decision we did when we chose to not go with comfort when we dumped Windows in exchange for a practical system.

8. - HEADLINE: Put more pressure on hardware companies for drivers

8. - DESC: Don't accept the status quo when it comes to shit driver support. Lean on Nvidia and the others until they start to realise we want proper driver support.

9. - HEADLINE: Look into more optimisation (like Solus)

9. - DESC: I was interested to learn about Solus, which uses some optimisation techniques that seem a little underused in the community, so look into giving Ubuntu users that also.

I know, I don't ask for much.
And thanks for the great OS!

ROLE: Infrastructure Developer for multinational company
By Betteridge's Law of Headlines, the answer is "No".

REST describes the architecture of the web, which most websites already conform to. Developers could design web APIs more like web pages, but standard media types must be adopted first. JSON-LD is a strong contender at that.
But the price is lower now! They could be spending a bit more (or even the same) to treat many more patients than they did in 2015, but instead they choose to spend much less to treat a few more patients. Of course you are free to imagine that it could have happened differently.
He may have been referring to Wirth's law.
From wikipedia

Wirth's law is a computing adage which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
I think you're mixing concepts here.
Swift is a programming language, Cocoa is the app development framework for macOS.

You can already use Swift in Linux (and I suppose there are already some WIP bindings to GTK). Cocoa is a totally different beast, really dependant on internal workings and semantics of macOS, and porting it would definitely take more than a single release cycle.

And Kotlin does not have any association with Google whatsoever.

If you want a single language / development framework for mobile and desktop, I think the best option right now would be React Native, given that Canonical created a Ubuntu Desktop fork.
Jazz is awesome for working area ! :)
How is this supposed to work? If I click on `Start` it loads a page then nothing happens. I have to click `Start` repeatedly to make it visit new pages despite that it says it is `Running`.
FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Bluetooh that works

DESCRIPTION: I never managed to have my PC playing music through blutooth to a bluetooth loudspeaker. (I'm using Xbuntu, playing mp3s with mpv.) I think it could be because the audio system seems messy: should I have jackd enabled? What is it? So maybe the headline should be to cleanup audio system, specially its routes.
+1 as well. This made me brick my entire installation (entirely my own fault: trying to fix it with insufficient knowledge). It made me switch to another distribution.
How is this mission trying to solve the distribution issues?
Firebird 3.0.2 sub-release is available
For those of you in the US interested in this topic, I suggest listening to podcast called The Kunstlercast. It really opened my eyes and altered my views on housing, land use, transportation, etc.
What an awesome idea!
I agree. I'm not one to use the "disruptive" term frequently, but that's what's going on here, IMO - traders are using disruptive technology. As with mp3s, the answer (again, IMO) is not to try to prevent their use, but to adapt the business model and laws to take advantage of them. That might mean significant changes to - and upheavals in - the financial world, but the financial world has never had qualms about inflicting those on other people.

Sooner or later, people are going to be able to communicate using encrypted channels without even needing an external device, just like they're going to be able to capture stills and video without needing anything other than their eyes and implanted hardware.

Rather than trying to enforce increasingly-unenforceable rules, I think it makes more sense to think about the business (or other organization) those rules are designed to protect, and make a call on whether it's even practical or needs to be reworked - or maybe even scrapped and replaced with something else.
MOOCs Have a Business Model, Except in the Liberal Arts
> How do you test if qsort_r expects

> (*)(void*, const void*, const void*)

> or

> (*)(const void*, const void*, void*)

You can write C++ code that uses templates and SFINAE to do it. I have. I will admit, it looks like garbage. But it is possible.
How can iPhone apps benefit from Amazon Web services cloud
OnePlus Announces Dash Energy Drink Coming This April First
Disclaimer: I don't use Ubuntu very much personally.

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FLAVOR Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE Fresher Wayland plumbing libraries

DESCRIPTION

Ubuntu users wanting to use Sway often struggle to get the correct version of all of the dependencies installed.

AFFILIATION Maintainer of a popular wayland compositor

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FLAVOR *

HEADLINE Better support for debootstrap

DESCRIPTION

Installing Ubuntu with debootstrap should be officially supported and less painful.

AFFILIATION Maintainer of an unpopular build server software
Hey give it a go renting, I moved to Tassie for a year and that turned into 5. Hobart is awesome and before I bought my place 7 minutes from the CBD for 330K, I used to rent a place for 250 a week.
And now my mortgage payments are still less than what I was paying for a townhouse in Canberra. Locals think its expensive, but play the long game with Tassie and things are looking good.
FLAVOR: Desktop

HEADLINE: Ubuntu for tablet devices

DESCRIPTION: Currently no Linux distro has full success installing on a Bay Trail touch screen tablet (for instance).
good point. i am a perfectionist but if there is any deadline in a project i make too much mistakes and i mostly realize i wrote bad code a month ago.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
+1 to this. You currently have a lot of devs switching to the Dell XPS 13/15 (myself included) from the MacBook Pro line, wanting to give Ubuntu a go and speccing that particular laptop out with it.

Coming from mac, the most jarring experience of moving over is the trackpad. We know that for most trackpads, you can configure them to have similar behaviour for clicking (two finger right click, one finger click, no dedicated buttons), but it is hidden in config files etc. The option to emulate this experience should be baked into Ubuntu and made easy to access.

Palm rejection is also another big point with these trackpads. It doesn't work very well out of the box.
Yes definitely. See this forum [0] for a potential manufacturer who tries as good as a small manufacturer can by offering computers without an OS and also are careful when selecting components, but they can in no way guarantee linux compatibility or offer Ubuntu pre-installed because it would cost too much.

[0]: http://forum.novatech.co.uk/t/linux-compatibility-what-are-the-best-current-laptops-to-choose-from-any-experience-im-thinking-novatech-for-a-new-laptop-i-wont-use-windows-anyway/621
Surprised that you think London housing is not as bad as Australia. Prices here are quite a bit higher in London, and from what I understand, London salaries are also often not as high.

I've lived in London for 10 years, and my partner is Australian. We've considered moving to Australia recently, so the above is from my research.
-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

-HEADLINE: Network manager that works

-DESCRIPTION:
The single thing that would make Ubuntu seem 10x more polished than it now is the horrible state of the network manager.

The little wifi bar in the top right. Sometimes, randomly, after dropping a wifi connection, or going to sleep and waking it will:

1) Stop listing SSIDs except the one I've already configured and want to connect to. (But I know there's more)

or

2) Show the "wired connection" icon. Gray out the entire wifi section of the network manager dropdown menu. All while it is actually connected to some wifi and I can use the internet.

These issues are mostly fixed by a `systemctl restart network-manager`, but sometimes require a full restart.

I'm the kind of person that recommends people to get Ubuntu. "Everything just works nowadays on Ubuntu". Then I get a call a week later and have to explain to them "just type sudo systemctl restart network-manager into terminal"
They then give me the "What? That is so stupid."

ROLE/AFFILIATION: Student / Sysadmin / Machine (Deep) Learning Engineer / Memeber of a students' club that organizes an event on every Ubuntu release where we help fellow students dual boot Ubuntu (or another Linux distro, but we recommend Ubuntu)

EDIT: formatting.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Any (preferred this to be in upstream Debian)

- HEADLINE: binary diff updates for apt-get.

- DESCRIPTION: I have seen Fedora updates as binary diffs. It is very small, uses less bandwidth and space, and gets installed faster.

This request isn't really for Ubuntu 17.10 though (I don't know if there is enough time for this). And I don't wish (actually I hate) this to be an Ubuntu specific feature. I wish this to be an upstream (Debian) feature.

Thanks
a file system which doesn't force me to Google 'busybox' 'fschk' 'grup repair' every other day.

a desktop which is stable ( and boots after system updates )
> Fake news is specifically the creation of websites that look like legitimate news sites, with what look like legitimate articles, in order to generate click and ad revenue.

So CNN, NYT, WashPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, etc.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Child friendly (ad blocker, content filter)

DESCRIPTION: For my son's first computer, I picked Lubuntu and spent days making it "internet ready". I installed Dansguardian + Privoxy, then added uBlock Origin to Chrome, then added OpenDNS to my home router. It was a lot of searching online and trial & error but worth it. From time to time, I check websites he visited and what got blocked (grepping logs) and adjust accordingly. One problem with this is updates are blocked so I must disable proxy manually every time I update.

Please consider making something like this available out-of-the-box. Something that can be enabled/disabled with a few clicks. Also, a simple way to review history and adjust settings. It would make Ubuntu an excellent choice out-of-the-box for all kids. Thank you for asking.
Less than a minute in it and I'm already sitting down.
Fantastic.

A shame about the comments on the article.
This guy's intent was to create a software and sell it. His clients intents is another story.
“I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Peggy Udden, an executive secretary at MIT. “Not only because she was so young, but a girl.”

Hah, this comes across as incredibly patronizing.

Seriously though, whenever someone in a position of authority makes a prediction of "the next Uber", "the next Einstein", or "the next Silicon Valley", I am instantly extremely skeptical.
omg, I am on 14.04 LTS and didn't believe until now it is not fixed in newer releases! :)
please read https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/magazine/sand-mining-indi...
Parents keeping an eye on their kids, schools monitoring students, small offices keeping an eye on staff, etc.

That's my guess at least.
Have you ever actually used it? It does greatly improve developer ergonomics on the client side. Check out Apollo + React (or another framework).