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Both Dell and System76 sell laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed.

Are you looking into some sort of certification of the sort "Ubuntu Verified"?
> Games are a special breed of application since they delegate a lot of work to the GPU and often are GPU-bound, not CPU-bound.

Yeah, and the GPU (at least a dedicated one) has its own VRAM, so accesses for which RAM speed would otherwise be important end up relying on VRAM speed, I assume.
I can absolutely understand why you would want this, but for me it'd be a huge net negative. I'd guess that points towards it being a configurable option somewhere.
Yet another init system




In seriousness, I'd like to see Ubuntu standardize on an init -- don't care what it is, as long as I don't have to understand three.
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Bring back the ability to have icons in menus

- DESCRIPTION: I very much got used to quickly navigating menus by icon - right click in nautilus and open in terminal had an icon next to it etc. I had to turn this on via a gconf setting or something, I forget, but now that possibility is gone, and I'm left with hundreds of moments of tiny frustration not being able to find what I'm looking for quite as quickly.

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Better DisplayPort Multi Stream Transport support

- DESCRIPTION: This is related to others' comments about better external monitor support in general. I had an MST hub that worked in 16.04 but doesn't in 16.10. I don't know what happened. But even when it did work (and I've tried three different ones, so it's not just this one that's flaky), I had to say the right incantations and hotplug things in the right order, and make sure I'd rebooted since last using only a single external monitor, etc, in order to avoid hard crashes or blank screens. And I'm faced with having to wait multiple cycles thirty seconds long while the monitors, the hub, and the computer seemingly can't coordinate with each other and switch on and off repeatedly. I'm on a dell xps 13 (intel graphics). Yes, this belongs in a bug report and I'll do that too, but I wanted to draw attention to it anyway. I've struggled with flaky MST support regardless and am pretty sure it's not limited to my hardware.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Research scientist and open source developer
Ah, so that's how those Verizon apps got on my Pixel!
Super important, but when I posted this nobody had stated the obvious, so I did. :-)
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Another consumer-test finds MacBook Pro battery life exceeds Apple’s claims
> What exactly is the legitimate use of disabling the webcam indicator remotely?

I want to do that on a Pi camera at a remote location so animals aren't disturbed, or the people aren't aware they're being filmed.

> ...a tool being purpose built for illegal activity.

Intent isn't determined by how others use something, or what a YouTube video says the intent is.
> “It’s like saying that if someone buys a handgun and uses it to rob a liquor store, that the handgun manufacturer is complicit.”

Except it's really more like someone stealing a handgun and then using it to rob a liquor store, and then blaming the handgun manufacturer.
So, when is the FBI going to arrest the distributors of Kali Linux or Linus Torvalds, the head of a massive association of associates who create and support the defacto operating system of hacking that Kali is built upon?

Sometimes I think it might be better to not be in the technology industry where outsiders can only see what you do as magic and declare you "A Witch!" and come at you with rakes, pitchforks and BearCats.
This guy has some really interesting blog posts about system level programming.
An MBA doesn't make a CEO. CEOs are born, but their rise can be accelerated with an MBA.

Successful CEOs have a particular perspective and mindset that allow them to understand both the underlying value of their company, and, the business strategies that enable the value to be realized. The MBA program cannot instill this perspective and mindset. But it can fill in the gaps of knowledge that is used to realize value.

An engineering degree, coupled with product development experience, goes a long way towards developing the sense of what is valuable in a tech firm. In order for an engineer to rise to CEO and be successful, they would need to understand:

- A P&L

- A Balance Sheet

- The liability of different hiring/firing approaches

- The standard terms of different partnership and marketing contracts.

- I.e., the basic functional operation of the Legal, Financial, HR, manufacturing ops, facilities, and, importantly, Marketing & Sales.

You can learn a lot of that in business school, but I believe you can learn it well enough just by getting involved in those functions in some way and seeing how it all works together. For me, I view it like any system: functional blocks and interfaces that interact to cause profit and growth. Engineers who become successful CEOs can more or less naturally assimilate this and make solid plans and strategies.
Can anyone speculate what will happen if I'm using an unlocked Google device (Nexus 5X) on Verizon? Will the new app be force-installed somehow? And can it be removed?
Such a deflection of the topic is unworthy of hacker news. Trump is the president, discussion about Trump's negatives are not an excuse to deflect with "what about Obama", he is not the topic. Giving a speech is in no way comparable to the topic at hand anyway.
Larger means contribute a bigger percentage to Australia's economy. GDP makes sense but I cannot recall 100%.
Well Stripe is handling payments for other companies so any unserved/blocked request could cost their clients literal money/customers. Also their customers could suddenly get an influx of orders/customers following things like Superbowl commercials so their limits would need to be pretty high.

I'm guessing here but I'm guessing Stripe would actually only enforce these limits when they have some infrastructure issue or emergency and in most cases would allow all non-abusive uses of their API through.

Twitter and other such services could use much lower rate limits because its OK if a user is unable to post a new tweet for a few seconds.
A big +1 from me. Network Manager is so bad I wonder how it ever got adopted by the main distros.
The difference is that marijuana use and gay sex, if illegal, are "victimless crimes." Hacking into people's computers to take over their webcam and steal their credit cards and passwords is not.
How are your RPC examples not REST?

RPC would involve client lib. And may or may not even use HTTP as transport.

api.get_product(id=1)

api.add_product(details)
It can work in multiple ways, depending on your goals. Keep in mind, Squid is infrastructure software, not end-user software. There is no one configuration; it depends on what you want to achieve and your environment.

That said, the web site[1] offers great docs with lots of config samples to start from. If you're starting from scratch, take a look at CARP configuration. Squid also speaks ICP and HTCP.

Squid is one of the rarely-sung heroes of web content delivery.

[1] http://www.squid-cache.org/
similar to your case, our product was also built on angular 1.x. However, we (and the product as well) have had a better fate in which we successfully convince the big guy to use React for any new feature that we want to build or code we need to fix. Now, we are having more and more react components, and lesser angular 1 code every day.
> It sucks knowing that thru my monthly bill that I am subsidizing a "phone upgrade" program that I am never going to take advantage of

One of the reasons that your phone bill likely dropped is that Verizon no longer couples the cost of your phone with your contract.
That's not the opposite view. The contesting view I support is that the government is a group of struggling humans playing game of thrones with each other (but mostly without the killing, firing is enough).

E.g. the change of mind of Erdogan (a very common topic in European media these days). Coming from the taxes-for-political-service point of view, one would argue that Erdogan has become a really bad leader, killing and firing many of his people and fighting against the EU who is publicly acting like the big supporter of human rights. From the game of thrones point of view though it looks like he's struggling for years to get support from the EU, but they don't really support him. Now he seems to get support from Russia and maybe even China, so he decides to make EU the big enemy because that gains him favor with his people and strengthens his ties to Russia. From that point of view it's suddenly a very logical, maybe even smart move. One might even argue that he doesn't have another chance and if he wouldn't do it, he would end up losing his job, dead, or in jail and being replaced by another who is more willing to play good boy for the Russians.
I had a brain tumor removed in 1990 (epilepsy sucks). I was awake for the entire procedure (12hrs). And spoke with the doctor and nursing staff while it was going on.

My only regret was not asking for a mirror so that I could watch.

Many years ago TLC (before it degraded into trash) had an excellent show called "The Operation" where it would show EVERYTHING that happened during a medical procedure. (From a teaching hospital) It was incredible to watch and very educational.
> couldn't these millions be spent on Earth?

Couldn't these millions be taken from military expenditures instead of scientific progress?
Instead of fake news we had urban legends and old wives tales -- and these stories spread for decades or centuries. Now the velocity has increased, allowing these stories to appear to have some concentrated influence on current events.

Jump back before the web and Snopes and it was extremely difficult to even verify a story was fact or not. Facts usually meant going to a library and finding a book that was written years before. Even then, just establishing that the author's name was real was a long and very rough process.

I agree, we have come a very long way and are much better off today. This is hardly a crisis, just growing pains.
On first pass I was pretty alarmed and thought this was a scary precedent being set. Further down in the comments I believe it was likened to arresting a gun manufacturer for someone pulling an armed robbery, and that the major vendors are getting a pass for the same functionality.

However, I disagree. The functions listed above are not mainstream use cases for legitimate software. I also think of it as the same thing as arresting someone who hosts a child porn or silk road type of website. You may not be doing the crime, but you certainly are facilitating it in a big way.

What I also think, however, is that this is probably a misguided kid with aspirations that exceeded his business savvy. He probably could be mentored into using some of his skills for good, so I hope the FBI doesn't proceed to ruin his life.
Its is not just "some bias". Its every single day accessing to WaPo or NYT and have two dozens articles and news about Trump with negative connotation. As a non American, I just got tired of this. I dont feel the need to access to the mainstream portals anymore. It just began to be boring. There is an ongoing coup in Venezuela, with illegal arrests but somehow the very same Russian - Trump news remains more important.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: optimize Ubuntu for people who suffer migraines/headaches and other health issues when working with displays.

- DESCRIPTION: There's a small niche of users who suffer badly when working with displays. There are all sorts of things to optimize(mostly to kill various flickers and too much brightness) - no backlight refresh by putting backlight at 100% and using some screen filter app , 16-bit resolution(32-bit in some display types is causing some flicker), up-convertion of videos to the highest frame-rate possible(if it's possible to do so for web videos - would be amazing!!!), various night modes and brightness controls, maybe recommending screens and devices that would help(selection is a huge issue).

btw, if you manage to really help here, this user niche will be very loyal, and will suffer a lot on other areas. Also - a well optimized machine, might be liked by regular users in a subtle way(less tired, etc).

- ROLE: desktop user with migraine.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: WINE

- DESCRIPTION: Windows 10 will soon be able to run Ubuntu Xenial as a subsystem, I would like to see Ubuntu response with a superb wine integration.
On the matter of objectivity let's examine the issue and follow it through:

A comment is made that correlates a popular technology opinion to a dreadful political subject. Offense ensues. Next... sadness.

A couple of months ago I heard the most perfect description for such a sentiment from an army colonel to which he described such (in a broader context) as fragility. Sadness is not a valid qualifier for making a rational qualification of competencies... except in software where imposter syndrome is rampant.

I will stop here. I have had this conversation numerous times in the past and for people who suffer from fragility it is generally not understandable beyond an honest disclosure of what it really is. To me welfare is the perfect analogy. For people addicted to that system no rational conversation will convince them double the work in the short term could have 10x benefits later down the road. They can't see it and don't want it. They are content and utterly reliant upon the tools provided to them.
Setting up (configure/build + daemon) Redshift is bit pain, a built-in would be awesome, similar to the one just launched in GNOME.
This is very similar to github.com/capless/envs.
Keep in mind he only has a 35% approval rating, most American are bothered greatly by what's going on. He also lost the popular vote, so he won even though more people voted for someone else.
You might be interested in this website.

https://www.stockdroids.com
And at the same time, on this very website, we see social scientists saying that "we are losing the information war". No wonder, when institutions behave like that why should we have any trust in them?

Of course when you're used to people trusting and obeying you, it becomes so natural that you stop thinking about it. That's a problem for you, and the rest of us, the day it no longer happens.

That day is getting closer and closer, thanks to idiots like the FBI officers in the article. For a lot of people it is already too late. In a world where you can choose your news, people make up their minds at most once on a subject and then they are set for life — and they will have an effect on the opinions of their family and friends, which will do further harm to the trust in your institution.
Not really disagreeing, but if I start a gun shop in a bad neighborhood (and then naturally a higher % of my customers will be more criminal in nature) does that make me liable?
I think you're confusing Windows DPI scaling availability vs lack of support from the apps you use.

It's not windows fault the apps don't take advantage of DPI.
You can also disable dpi scaling for individual apps.
And it's a shame, because there really isn't a reason not to do both. After all, we are spending millions on both.

I really love the story about Norman Borlaug [0], because it shows how these great advances can be from enormous work from unexpected places. His research and testing - over decades - saved so many lives (he earned the title "The Man Who Saved a Billion Lives", and it may not be an exaggeration).

I vaguely recall the econ nobel a few years ago studied how people starved with food rotting in enormous piles just a few dozen miles away. It's utterly heartbreaking, and the worst is that it was largely bad policy that did it. We already overproduce food enough, but we can't get it where it needs to be.

Now, though, imagine that we find a way to mine asteroids for rare earth minerals. Imagine we can have clean power without the horrific pollution as industrial infrastructure ramps up. How could that change the world, leading to logistics networks that could fix distribution issues?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

EDIT: terminology, and I'd like to disclaim about the strife problem: space can't really fix. But food and money can't either.
Is SYN flooding also to prevent disturbing animals?
Treason is not a distraction, it's as serious as a crime gets.
Usually when you say CRUD people tend to think "limited functionality" and PostgREST is a bit more then "basic CRUD" as i am sure you know. It's interface is powerful enough to support GraphQL on top (since this is the topic of this thread :) https://subzero.cloud/ )
6 Examples of How Extroverts Benefit from Their Social Privilege
Indeed. I like pasta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spagetti_monster
they will fix it just like everyone else. see Facebook. just add a "must be 18" to the eula nobody ever read. and then blame the parents if you did track kids.
+1, PA + pavucontrol are very flexible. You don't even need weird protocols to send your audio to another computer, I just used its tunnel module (enable it in the receiver, then configure its IP on the sender) to send my browser's audio output to my home server, which has a decent stereo attached. The latency is quite good too, the delay even over wifi is barely noticeable.
Diary of a new mum
I liked this article. Big thumbs up from me.
I have an MBA from one of the top 3 programs, and I see a lot of evidence to support this, but I disagree that it's a lack of conviction.

I came from a diff't background than most of my classmates, but the sense I got was that, for a lot of them, life was a series of clearly defined competitions & steps. I took to calling it the Gilded Pipeline, but in general, it was ivy undergrad -> banking/consulting -> private equity -> MBA -> ???.

The '???' triggered a surprising # of identity crises. A lot of people felt they'd had a clear way ahead their entire lives, and now there was no clear goal in the horizon.

Most of them had strong convictions--from community work to personal beliefs to long-term goals--at least as strong as the general pop., I'd argue. But give anyone $100k of student debt & the promise of exit options galore, and I'd wager most would take the 'last big thing.'
I thought we were talking about RPC over HTTP.
My RPC examples don't qualify as "proper" REST where you are only supposed to GET and POST singular resources at a time. In order to post multiple, you need a collection identifier. In REST, you can't GET "items", you can get "item1" and "item2" or you can get "collection1" to which "item1" and "item2" belong.

Maybe a clearer example around running a script:

REST:

POST /api/action { action: do_the_thing }

RPC:

POST /api/do_the_thing

RPC is the most basic mapping of actions > endpoints whereas REST demands you organize everything into resources.
Passenger jet approaching Heathrow in drone 'near-miss'
Perhaps DanielBMarkham is an advocate for Basic Income?

Because in a world where we've automated away most of the good jobs and the threat of no job means being destitute and on the street, your argument that house cleaners become abundant seems irrefutable.

In a world where I balance my dislike for cleaning toilets with my desire for a slightly larger share of the robot-generated bounty, it's not clear there would be an over supply of house cleaners.
how would you short Australia? Is there an index ETF?
I would think with a team as large as Ubuntu, they already have their "favorite developer laptop," and it just might be the XPS. (Disclaimer: I honestly don't know what it is.)

But his suggestion has merit: in addition to the high-end dev laptop that their team will just fix because they use it, it would be good to _publicly_ announce a mid-level consumer laptop at the time of release. It doesn't have to be a sponsorship. They can put disclaimers all over the announcement. etc. etc.
How Trump Is Helping Canada Beat America
I want to see the Amazon link icon. Not there at all. I don't know how plausible this is, it's just a wish.
Personaly I don't know if they were lying(I was speaking of what other people believe), as I don't read the NYT that often (I am not a US citicien) and not at those times. But what I know from german newspapers, I think it is very possible. At least lying in the sense of bending and twisting words, leaving out context to intentional misslead the reader of what actually happened. This I can witness every day

Or in the context of Irak, maybe they did not formally lie, but did know that the persons they quoted did. Which would count as the same for me.
> then is it really an issue if they coordinated with them

Yes, it is.

> How is it any different than hiring a PR firm based in another country?

One is treason, one is not.
Strange but True: Infinity Comes in Different Sizes (2007)
Not sure, but I do know for sure that the firmware to the radio is a proprietary blob that we, as users, have 'no rights' to.
Meaning, they could already be doing this without notifying anyone, and we have no way to confirm beyond packet capture and analysis or reverse engineering.
I find it hard to believe there is no market for an open-firmware phone.
Yes, GNOME has this feature - but it doesn't make the fonts look good enough, unfortunately.

Ubuntu's solution for beautiful fonts uses non-free software I believe, and the results IMO are as good as or better than Windows or Mac.

When I switched from Ubuntu to mainline Debian, I started having to install Infinality to get beautiful fonts as good as or better than Ubuntu's.

It's a general pain point with desktop Linux, but an area where Ubuntu leads.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Productivity & Bugs relating to being a 'Switcher'

DESCRIPTION:

- Enhance Auto-Hotkey to import/work with TextExpander key macroing. Not only is auto-hotkey mostly static (yes you can add python snippets), TextExpander on the Mac is so much easier to use (especially when you also use Brevvy on PC to keep your snippets consistent). Would love to see this on Ubuntu or even just any Linux distro in general.

- Add ECC key support to gnome-keyring (SSH agent has to be manually managed when using ECDSA or ED25519 ssh keys). Right now I have a shell alias to run the ssh-agent which is fugly and high friction to working quickly.

- Make network manager more reliable (sleep/wake laptop will not re-establish a network sessions and requires restarting the entire service).

Having ' echo "alias reset-wifi='sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart'" >> ~/.bash_aliases' and running it every wake is kinda nutty.

- Convince someone to write a LittleSnitch like UI to the system (something I very much miss from the Mac).
- Make it easy to manage system wide configuration preferences across systems (just syncing random 'dot folders' from the user home directory not sufficient).

- High DPI by connection type would be nice (ie. my Lenovo X2#0 is not High DPI but it is when connected to my BL3201PH), not as annoying to me as some but having scaling on at 13XX by 768 is kind of fugly.

- Allow me to disable virtual desktop functionality when plugged into a big external display (similar to previous point) when mobile virtual desktops are helpful with the low screen real estate but when connected to a 4K monitor well... I don't need virtual desktops anymore so they should collapse into 1 or 2 or whatever. That would be pretty cool to 'just have work.'
I can confirm that it's not just you. There is a copy on googlecache[1]

[1]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Quite right. One uses packages.ubuntu.com:

* http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/all/byobu/filelist

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