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File Manager: Thunar File Manager

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Completely unrelated, but having Ubuntu work well on a Mac (and retaining habits learned on a Mac) with the external Apple Magic Trackpad would be great. It's a huge source of frustration and annoyance for me for various reasons, right after the keyboard shortcuts. Native to Ubuntu, I will also miss Unity not being developed further or not being developed with the focus that existed before.

Another one, though not a desktop default app. Please add a well maintained and working VNC server (or make it available). I tried a few, gave up and went with TeamViewer (which is a commercial product, but free for personal use). Not being able to screen share with a mostly headless machine has been very frustrating.
The problem with Unicode operators is good, consistent input methods.
I would feel morally obliged to warn people against working in the YC company I spent a few months with.
If you had to summarize into three points?
>> This seems like a legitimate issue though. How do you propose it be solved?

> Is the game responsible for people littering?

I feel like you didn't answer my question?

Edit, to clarify: I'm asking what the actual solution is: expecting the city to pay for skyrocketing enforcement? Or letting the park get trashed and then blaming the citizens? Or just closing the park and blaming people for it happening? etc.
Slate: Beautiful static documentation for your API
According to what I've read [0], the increase has led to more leisure time (and less money). I would expect the same in agriculture.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-26/seattle-s...
Yea that's about what I expected though. Reminds me of walking around a submarine, only worse.
Hah, that's excellent! I'd never heard of that specific trick, but survivor bias does seem like one of the best ways to fool scam-aware people into trusting you.
the issue is that some of the ligatures, especially the arrows, aren't as heavily towards the "clearly". I have difficulty telling the 2 character vs 3 character ones apart.
Hey, I'm not forcing Emacs on anyone! The poster asked to "submit the apps you find most useful in Linux", so I listed what I use, honest-to-God. I don't see how a legit datapoint deserves a downvote, but whatevs.
> Thomas Pesquet, french astronaut behind this work, shares stunning pictures of Earth

Thank you very much for that link, there are some really beautiful pictures there...
A hyperloop terminal would probably be located in a vastly less convenient location than Penn Station. I expect for many NYC residents it'd be a shorter trip to take a high speed train through the existing right-of-way than to take a hyperloop, similar to how it's often faster to take the train from NYC to DC than to fly.

I really do not see the appeal of hyperloop in any situation involving high density land use, and I also do not see how it could work in locations without high density.
Ex TIY employee here. I only left the place because I wanted to go back to developing fulltime.

As someone who worked with the instructors and campuses, the global team, and taught for years at The Iron Yard, I can tell you the team -- especially the campus teams -- were largely the right mix of talent - great engineers that cared about communicating well and respecting folks from all walks of life.

With that said, after the investment rounds some things definitely began to take shape:

1. The global staff slowly became more and more steps removed from the daily convo's of the instructors and campus directors

2. There were regional managers and others who were brand new to the business; the company hired mostly from outside to bring in management team and half of them never ran a local campus first (to me their credentials from prior positions didn't always matter). They should have hired all mgmt from within, as they sadly did not mirror the culture of the campus teams.

3. There's such a plethora of schools out there now competing for the same customer-base. The Iron Yard spent a LOT of time, effort, and money making some of the best curriculum I've ever seen - including its own platform for distributing content, videos, running live-editable code blocks of any language on Docker instances on the fly, and homework and review features for staff. But a lot of places competed on price and still operated without approval from state education boards or meeting any national standards.

4. Instructors needed a change of pace, as they are constant learners too. Any churn and change of staff usually meant that "If it wasn't documented, then the lessons were not learned in-full for the next employee". So, I definitely saw some campuses run into trouble because when a veteran employee left (no upward movement for them, etc because there was already too much mgmt in-place) the impact was quite hard.

I loved the team, but ultimately a few miscalculated moves and operational/strategic retries burned the candle at both ends faster than the mgmt expected.
I think they did:

> put the blame on the person who does the wrong thing.
Cool to see SSR in here. A friend made that and I always thought it was much better than existing tools, at least at the time, both in how fast they are, their ease of use and the options they provide (some have options you just never touch, others lack options that you wanted to change; SSR has neither).
Tunesviewer to access the university courses available on iTunes. It allows you to choose which videos to download and you can watch it through tunesviewer itself or your favorite media player.

https://github.com/rbrito/tunesviewer
I think? VLC is the only Qt dependency on there. That means you pull in all of Qt just to run VLC.

If you are making a default install, it is best to only include one or the other toolkit for a lot of reasons:

* Consistency. Gnome and Qt apps, even when themed the same, have different UI metaphors, especially modern GTK3 apps and Qt Quick apps vs everything else.

* Performance and memory. Central to making a fast, responsive, low resource using OS is sharing libraries. Having all your software using the same hot toolkit rendering code paths means - optimally - better cache coherency and - generally - lower ram usage from not having to pull two toolkits into resident memory at the same time.

* Install image size / hard drive disk usage. Full Qt (including webengine) takes up at least 400MB of space. That is both on the iso and in the final install. That isn't a problem for average use cases, but there exist both bandwidth limited and storage limited scenarios where you can still run a modern desktop to consider.
Ok that's what I figured, I was skeptical at believing them.
I keep it in a personal wiki that lives in dropbox. I use this one (tiddlywiki.com), but anything with tagging and search would work. I appreciate the organization by time, tag, or list, and also the latex and markup support, but these are not essential. Semantic search would be even better. Ive used this to capture ideas, notes, code, writings and lists. It has been essential for my work/dissertation.

I see the personal wiki as an evolution of the commonplace book, that was kept in the past by the likes of Darwin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book). Here are some of my notes from the book Where Good Ideas Come From:

"We know much of Darwin's thinking on the development of his ideas from his extensive notebooks, which he read, and re-read and recombined. This era was the time of the 'commonplace' notebook, in which long passages of quotes from other sources and thoughts were recorded. Reading and writing were apparently quite related. These books may have struck a balance between silo'd organization, and utter chaos, allowing the development of theories beginning with hunches which could then be further developed. The key to developing a hunch into a theory appears to be writing it down "

This is a repost from a previous thread regarding ideas[1] , but 'learned information' and 'ideas' are both just types of information to be managed.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14546549
It's a thread, started about 2004-ish, apparently updated through 2011-ish, complaining that people should use native apps instead of web apps. It starts with the premise that using HTML to implement an application is abusive, since it was developed as a document display language, not an app framework.

They focus a lot on E-Mule as a non-HTML-based, native web app. (someone else eventually points out that it doesn't fit the customary definition of "web app").
$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty
syntax, not semantics. Mathematical semantics is quite precise.
By enforcing rules against littering, using parks after hours, etc.
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
The High Five: Live every week like you’ll discover a dinosaur fossil
What kinds of technical questions do they ask in a data science interview?
This would be the best thing. US farm subsidies mean that Mexican farmers can't compete with US farms. If we stopped stupidly subsidizing farming[0], the Mexican economy would be able to make use of more of their citizens. They'd get the tax revenue, and maybe there'd even be more incentive to clean up corruption.

[0] Food security might be worth some subsidization, but not the level that the US currently has.
Let me test &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; something.

Edit: crap, doesn't work
Alternatively, why should you believe cost disease applies to other work when it doesn't apply to farm work?
From a Hegelian perspective, the best thing for Ethereum is for it to race back and forth across dialectics as quickly as it can. There will be many money stealing events as we discover how to do cryptocomputing safely. Better to get them over with now while the market cap is small and people know not to rely on it for anything too serious.

If they were to be as safe as possible, there would be less news, and they would push the traversal of those dialectics further into the history, when more people are using Ethereum and these kinds of events can do more damage.

It's beta. Don't worry about it. Come back in 10 years when the Heroku of Ethereum is released. Buy a couple Ethers now so you'll be rich then.
I don't get why ycombinator doesn't advertise on a sidebar to the right similar to stackoverflow or reddit ads.

There would be a lot more 'job ad' inventory and it wouldn't interfere directly with the user experience.

In fact they can also use it to advertise other initiatives like open applications/events/research grants/...
Another agency taking the well worn path which Trump and his staff have made into an art form - just lie.

The Trump base doesn't care. The Republicans in Congress may care but they are too concerned with repealing ACA and not getting primaried and the Democrats are unable to form a coherent strategy.
Most of the pain comes from the fact that support for command line (and even things like concept of current directory) is bolted onto the win16 inspired win32 API as a complete afterthought.

Things that are implemented as command line utilities or call such commandline utilities (which includes Visual Studio and Windows SDK!) tend to cause these cludges to become painfully apparent.
The switch to libinput is good. I would also strongly suggest including libinput-gestures which enables multi-touch gestures. It's a fascinating feature which helps one's work flow.

Dash to Dock is another good one as are several other nice GNOME extensions.

bumblebee / gfx support would be nice :-)

Tiling Extensions as well.

The GNOME screen recorder works fine built in. :)
Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 21 July 2017
I use google docs and title the doc with a broad question or the search terms. I then answer the question or put in the research in the body of the doc. The search engine for the docs is then my own personal google.
At one point, I believe it was said that one reason discussion isn't allowed is so that stealth companies hiring aren't outed in the comments.
Ask HN: Just how anonymous is Tor?
Nemo did that out of the box on my Debian Stretch/Buster with Cinnamon setup. I assume it's not a plugin.
potentially robotics could increase your yields by making uneven plots of land more viable for planting.
Years? I don't even spend the whole day coding, and still switch fonts every month or so.

Exception: all my spreadsheets are in Consolas (an universally available font in Windows environments).
I would have to disagree on that point; speed is vitally important for equipment like this. Speed and accuracy determine how many of these machines you would need during the short window of peak ripeness. Speed determines how long it will take to get a return (if any) on the capital investment required for the machine. There is a reason that agricultural equipment is so large and most of it has to do with the short window a farmer has available for harvest. A machine that harvests an acre an hour might be useful, a machine that harvests an acre a day is a tourist attraction.
Usually it's about finished vs. unfinished. I've never thought about whether my basement is heated or not. I mean it doesn't have radiators but that's where the furnace is and if the basement got too cold that would be problematic because of pipes. But it's very unfinished :-)
> hen go for their customers

How exactly this can be executed?
Farming itself was a huge leap forward in reducing man-hours per unit of food.
If I'm getting this correctly, there is a flashcard app called "AnkiApp" that is separate from "Anki", but uses the same name. That's very misleading.
i go to a fair amount of conferences

dcdevfest: this was a great conference right in the midatlanti area in the capital one hq. was really a good crowd interested in a bunch of deep tech talks. nice facilities, not much in the way of vendor space.

aws reinvent - really always enjoy this because it's really the big event of the year. everyone who's involved in technology/cloud/whatever shows up to learn, pitch and hang out. there's some feelings of traditional "trade show" buy there's value in the whole experience. vegas is a bit much.

mongodb world - a good event if you are specific to this market. workshops are helpful.
I'm a freelance web developer and I use Expirify all the time (not with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates) to track all my clients' domain and SSL renewals and it works great
I'm not sure if it's the only reason that people keep flagging your submissions, but I suspect people are flagging them because they really dislike the use of hashtags in the submission title. The hashtags are not part of the titles and don't belong there. It looks like you have a habit of using them in your submissions and other people have a habit of flagging those submissions, maybe in response to that.

I found this article interesting and didn't know about this lawsuit before, so this submission was helpful to me. But I also don't like to see hashtags in HN submission titles.
I think adding a "We are stealth, dont allow comments" option would be good then
Tiny font person reporting in. I can easily read 9pt font scaled to 80% or 90% in Qt Creator on my 4k monitor. Some of my other coworkers are unsure if I even have text on my screen. I do it because I can fit 4 split views of 120 columns text on my screen (at 90%, 5 at 80%).

Right now I only have 3 split views, Unit tests, the header and the source file I am working on.That window does not take up the full screen and I have plenty of space for a build VM another text editor for scripts and notes, a file manager and a few consoles.
Signed in. Built a fake endpoint. Not sure what this is useful for.
> If I throw $10,000 over the white house fence and you jump the fence to get to it, its still YOUR problem and YOU are the one at fault for being where you arent supposed to be.

Actually, I'm fairly sure throwing objects over the White House fence without some authority is also illegal, so in your example both parties would legally be at fault.
I just type "calcu" instead. It's only one extra letter.
It's non existent in many cases, but not all. If you need real time sound, you'd use Jack, not PulseAudio.
Seems unlikely. Greeks and Romans probably did calculations in pretty much the same way, using a counting board. The early Greek way of writing numbers (look up Attic numerals) was the direct ancestor of the Roman method.

The alternative later way the Greeks (e.g. Euclid, Archimedes) wrote numbers was using their alphabet for 1–9, using separate letters for 10–90 and 100–900, then writing 1000–9000 with a “thousand” symbol plus the letter for 1–9 on top. Overall also a big pain in the butt.
I think what you mean is that most proofs follow easily once proper definitions are chosen. Notation is a visualization of definitions.
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The underclass is economically coerced. People with options aren't rejecting it because of status, but because it is extremely unpleasant work.
Tell that to the plethora of hotels that are constantly hiring contractors to clean their hotels because their staff either quit due to lack of pay or being overworked due to lack of staff.

The same for trucking companies that are haemorrhaging drivers.

The same for the construction industry.

Market efficiency implies the market is managed well. It's not half the time.
"most creative endeavors often do involve CREATING many things" ; not generating them.

You've "selected" something you liked. You are no artist and should not call your self like that. If you do, you will never inspire "simple" people.

At least if you do it would become the MacDonald of art.

Do nothing, sit and say to the bot if it fits you or not.

You're even worse than a DJ. The DJ actually works his selection and works his transitions.

Sketches have been written out of artist mind. Not by some selection that fits you or not.

Art is work.
Aesthetics is a thing.

Otherwise we wouldn't even be discussing typefaces.
How big is your screen?

Depending on your eyes that would be entirely reasonable on an 18 inch lapzilla or preposterously tiny on a 9 inch ultrabook.
What does it mean to "keep track of what you learn"? How do you determine what it is that you are learning and when, and what is the purpose of trying to log such an experience?
The main reason I haven't used derive_builder much is that I'd much rather have a compile-time guarantee that all the field that I want are filled out than have to check for an error at runtime (or worse, just `unwrap/expect` everywhere). I'm not sure there's currently a way around this on stable, but I'd personally prefer writing boilerplate for my types than having to handle errors in places that shouldn't need them.
Three out of your four suggestions are non-free, not just one.
The Gnome runner and Krunner from KDE both do this. I'm not sure if the Gnome variant supports arbitrary commands like Krunner does, but they at least have opening applications, unit conversion, and web search.
I don't get why the author keeps referring to the stolen ether as "counterfeit". It's not counterfeit, it's just stolen ether that will be reintroduced into the economy just as stolen bills are.
How should we protect and preserve our history – on the moon? |
When I read that, I thought "What a huge TCB versus what's typical." Additionally, there exist verified strategies for parsing that might be applicable to Scala. Depends on if their formalisms can handle the language's grammar or whatever. Additionally, if they write untrusted parts in ML, they can supplant it with stuff like property-based testing or CakeML compiler.
Why do you want to block a user with adblock?
> Lawyers and judges don't understand GPG.

As I mentioned in another comment, having an expert witness testify about public/private keys, PKI, "Web of Trust" should be sufficient in court.

Alternatively, passing legislation that gives a digital signature prima facie status in court would work as well.
On the stats side, often higher-level theory questions, such as "How does the k-means algorithm work?", "How do you select the best k for k-means?", "What is the curse of dimensionality?" which again would not be things covered at a data boot camp or data science thought pieces on Medium.

On the technical side, there is often more-advanced SQL (nested JOINs + PostgreSQL window functions). On the big data side, there is often discussion of distributed systems (e.g. Spark clusters) and practical algorithmic complexity at scale (i.e. instant fail if you suggest anything loglinear or slower).
Farming itself is largely replacing human gathering labor with better technology, so 200 years is off by about 10,000 years.
Paying the top 1/2 of earners a basic income is hyper regressive and inefficient (you have to turn around and tax it back from them).

The current progressive income tax system paired with a higher income tax credit - instead of a counter productive higher minimum wage - is a vastly superior approach that has already been proven to work very well.

BI is a fantasy at best. At worst, it'll wreck any economy that attempts it - which is also why none has or will. There's no scenario under which BI works out financially.
Hidden messages in JavaScript property names
If humans sort their own trash by hand it's inefficient but the labor is "free" (opportunity cost, sure, but nobody's paying wages for the time expended). If humans sort at a central location it's far more expensive for the waste handling organization, even if professional full time sorters are far more efficient, because professional sorters need to be paid and need to be compensated if they're injured on the job.

If segregated bins are ultimately dumped into one big mixed waste stream, it's stupid cargo culting to have people separate things. But that's not how I have seen it work in the cities I have lived in. Some centralized checking/sorting before processing is still required even if people are supposed to separate their own, but much less than if you just give people one giant bin to hold everything they want to get rid of.

If you had a centralized waste sorting machine that could separate as well as human labor, but was much cheaper, that would be even better. (Though it wouldn't completely remove the need for household level separation: some perfectly recyclable clean paper becomes un-recyclable if people indiscriminately mingle it with food scraps or other dirty things before collection.)
I don't remember whose research it is (it's a bit removed from my field of expertise =), but the gist of it is that they tried to highlight different parts of speech in running text in different colours, and showed that it actually decreased reading speed and comprehension.

Of course, there are several possible error sources (unfamiliarity with the colouring scheme for example), and whether this can be transferred to reading code is an open question. But I still think it's important to keep the existence of this kind of research in mind when discussing this kind of question (and also the similar question of mouse-driven interfaces vs. keyboard shortcuts), as it easily devolves into strongly held opinions and arguments along the lines of "it stands to reason that $opinion-held-is-true"
3D printed yachts in 3... 2... 1...
I don't have any experience in the commercial farming space, but since we're talking about strawberry picking here, aren't they picked far before the time that they're ripe, and ripened after using ethylene? (This is the main reason strawberries don't taste as good as they used to)
Why Software Testing matters?
Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea [pdf]
It's probably someone microwaving lunch.
Postmortem analysis of the latest Ethereum hack [in 500 words]
You're a god!
Hmm, I'm inclined to undown. I think the intention of this question is "what should the defaults be", not strictly "what do you use". I don't mean to offend, though. Undowned.