skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"CCleaner is an application that allows users to perform routine maintenance on their systems."

It's 2017, how is this still a thing?
This sounds awesome if it works and takes off
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Ouch, and thanks for being proactive getting those names squatted
Go for a refurbished macbook pro 2011-12 ish version and you cant go wrong.
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Yes, lenovo brought back old trackpad after feedback from users. In x240 trackpad buttons are part of trackpad and that was the issue.X250 onward buttons are separate from trackpad similar to models before x240.
Aw yeah, that's a good deal. I'm on a T460 too (bought new), and it's a wonderful machine.
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Hey guys!

I just built a (fun side-project and a) web app that curates all the tools that you can use to learn & build virtually anything- from an application, robot, logo, business cards to whatever else that you can think of and you can sort the list of tools based on your technical expertise or the kind of the stuff you’re looking to create. Yes, this project has been heavily inspired by Elon Musk’s way of educating himself but I feel that this website should be useful especially if you’re an intrinsically motivated maker. I’ve only scratched the surface thus far so expect it to be slightly buggy but updated with time. It would be really helpful if you could let me know what you think about it and share it with the ones whom you feel may find it useful.

http://kreatortools.com

Happy building ;)
IIRC, CCleaner used to come with some unnecessary stuff that caught users unawares.
But if you were the leader of Windows/Mac/Ubuntu(other distro) and you promote your product but you do not use it ,is not this a sign that your product is not that good? Or the Mozilla leaders go on a presentation using Chrome, IMO Linux Foundation seems to be focused on the financial success of Linux and not on the freedom ideals.
> it led me to discover Linux

As someone who is the same boat but hasn't discovered Linux yet, how hard would you say it would be to install a version of Linux that support 3 monitors (using an onboard ATI card and a PCIe card)? Last time I tried installing it this is the part I gave up at.

Also as a person always been aware of Window I find the graphics in Ubuntu lacking some finesse, i.e. the scrollbars, window panes look like that created using Java applets (granted it is a matter of taste and personal choice) but what is the most professional looking desktop to try right now?

Sorry i know this is off-topic but I too really want to switch from windows and don't want to waste money in Macbooks so any advice would be appreciated.
Angry Birds maker Rovio files for an IPO [pdf]
Fundamental analysis, arbitrage plays and, starting out, investing other people's money with hugely favorable commission structure for himself.
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But you realize that there isn't a common standard, right? Markdown is a language which has no official spec.

CommonMark is as close as it gets to one and that one does include github-style code fencing, so I don't know what you're even on about.
That creates an interesting conflict between automatic updates (you want to be patched against the latest security vulnerabilities) and manual, more infrequent updates (you are less exposed to a compromised update directly and automatically infecting your machine).
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meh...
I'm a Linux Ops person, and I shift between Linux/Mac/Windows all the time, depending on what I'm doing at that moment. Sometimes Linux is a PITA (ever tried setting up Bluetooth on it?) so I end up using my macbook and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I still love my Linux though.

There's plenty of space for all OSs to fit in this ecosystem. I thought we were over the 'linux rulz, windows/mac sucks' debate. Guess not.
General information about the IPO can be found from Rovio's homepage in here: http://www.rovio.com/investors/releases-and-publications/IPO
I think the article might answer that, if I understand your question correctly.
https://steemit.com/bitfinex/@gaitan/bitfinex-ceo-suspected-...

Raphaelle Nicole, the CEO of Bitfinex invested in the past
years in a number of ponzi schemes and also supported
Trendon Shavers, who was found guilty recently for "a
classic ponzi scheme" and was sentenced to 18 months in
prison. In 2012, Raphaelle tried his own ponzi scheme:

“When I need more coins than I have to fill an order, I
will ask everyone that previously “registered” with me to
lend me some btc. After 7 days, I will return all of it,
principal + 2% interests [per week]…. Now the questions
you might have: What could you do to make so much profit?
Let just say that I do “arbitrage”: I buy low and sell
high.”

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101345.0

Now that Pirateat40 closed down his operatations thanks
to all the fud that was going on and growing on the forum,
I expect everyone that spreads this fud, accused and
insulted Pirate and the people that supported him to
apologize.

Not only did Pirate brought us a great opportunity for
investors (once in a lifetime actually), he did help
stabilise and grow steadily bitcoin price, volume
exchange, and thus contributed to the success of bitcoin.
For that, Pirate, I want to thank you. You've done a
wonderful work, and I hope you're stay around here.

Now, apologies on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/666b7b/why_you_sho...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3igv0r/bitfinex_pr...
A refurbished 13" MBP Retina should work just fine! I bought it new in 2012 and it's performing just as perfect as the day I bought it.
First of all, this is why reproducible builds (getting bit-for-bit identical binaries independent of the machine used to build the software) is something we should be putting much more work into. The Debian folks are doing an amazing job there.

Another important point is that distributions have already solved effectively all of these problems. We have automated building and signing systems that mean that installation and upgrades are done in ways that are not vulnerable even to fairly sophisticated attacks. You can build packages locally if you want to verify them, and modifying a package after it has been built invalidates the signature that all modern package managers require before installing a package. As part of the openSUSE project we even have a free-to-use (and free as in freedom) build project called the Open Build Service[1] which allows you to build packages (with automated dependency update rebuilds) for many different distributions (Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL and obviously openSUSE and SLES).

I get that distributions aren't "sexy" but it's getting quite frustrating seeing all these communities make the same mistakes that distributions made (and learned from) more than 20 years ago.

[Disclaimer: I work for SUSE and am an openSUSE community member.]

[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/
> Mutation observers are very, very bad for performance.

No, they are not. Mutation events are tragic for performance and are deprecated (Chrome will make that pretty obvious in the console). The Mutation Observer was designed to have reasonable performance characteristics. It's still a very active listener, but rarely is it a bottleneck.

more: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2012/02/Detect-DOM...
I would have thought MOs were implemented in C and thus pretty fast. Either way, even if they're slow compared to this technique at present, I haven't found performance to be an issue when using them now, and no doubt they'll be optimsied further.
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One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid.

(Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters)
Is it because of some potential illness?
"We help clients ensure that their M&A strategy aligns with their broader corporate strategy. We identify and assess targets based on a client's strategic objectives, potential synergies, organizational and cultural fit, and the feasibility of a deal. To help the transaction proceed smoothly, we support clients in structuring the deal, communicating its rationale to stakeholders and markets, and planning for integration."

- Mckinsey's website http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corp...
> I'm somewhat surprised it mentioned publicly.

I guess it explains why I am not able to find any information related to SABLE. Are you able to release anything related to it? It seems really interesting.
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Hey HN community,

I want to create the About.me for brands.

It's called http://gide.io

I was recently at an agency doing some pitch deck work. We had to create some key visuals for an existing brand. As a designer, you always need three basic things. You need the logo, brand colours and brand font. We had none of these.

We had to crack on. So I Googled the brand logo and found a file. Meanwhile one of the accounts guys dug up a PDF style guide and emailed that through to me. Now we had the colours. The PDF style guide listed the font, but we had to go out and buy it.

This whole process from start to finish took around ¾ of a day before I had all the assets on hand.

This is a problem I know a lot of designers face.

There has to be a better way to get designers these key assets quickly and easily.

I believe there is a need for an ‘about.me’ for brands.

I’m currently testing such an idea in the market.

It's called Gide.

Gide will be a simple one page style guide that will feature a brand's logo files, brand colours and brand font files.

Your Gide will be a simple link that can be shared in seconds, here’s an example.

Currently there is two solutions, one is a very bulky and expensive PDF style guide that a lot of brands commission. The problem with this solution is that it does not provide downloadable files. Secondly it has to be dug up on the server and emailed across. Every time. This process can take a long time.

The second solution is online style guide creation tools such as Frontify. Whilst a great solution, you still have to pay a designer to create one for you which takes time and a fair amount of money.

With Gide, I plan to offer a service that will build and host a simple one page style guide for your brand for just $99 per year.

Marketing guys, Brand owners, Startup Founders, is this something you would want?

Would love some input, I'm trying to validate this week : )
I don't understand the question. Maintenance will always be a thing, carried out by humans, cron, or the os itself doesn't really matter.
According to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274517

This blog post from Piriform has more details: http://www.piriform.com/news/release-announcements/2017/9/18...

Basically they believe it was only the 32-bit installer that was compromised.
i7 3770, 32GB RAM, dual SSD and two HDD setup, Windows 10 x64, everything flies, absolutely everything updates before I finish half-blinking my eyes. I have 2-3 Twitch streams running 24/7 and still have 30-50ms in any game I enter.

Yet, Slack manages to have lag between pressing Enter and showing a message. It's baffling to me how almost nobody doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Miranda IM worked much faster when connected to 6 networks... on a machine that was 10x slower than my phone.

Like, come on.
Um what did you install? Personally I have been an OpenSUSE guy for almost 10 years now. I would be surprised that you would have a problem. Ubuntu should also be found.

Stay away from Fedora and Arch unless you don't mind getting into some set up files. Personally it is fun getting things setup for me and so I enjoy Arch and Fedora and sometimes it they are just as quick and simple as OpenSUSE and Ubuntu.
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That's ok for the NSA and a few large enterprises to check certain binaries but you can't ask any start up or small company to recompile themselves every version of every OS / Software / Library that they use. It's not really a practical solution (even assuming everything is open source).
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Ubuntu makes this pretty easy. Also solus 3 would be a good choice. And there are a number of resources and tutorials for this very thing. You can also customize your desktop environment so the critique of scroll bars and such can be resolved.
Malwarebytes is great. However, what if it was their installer that was attacked in such fashion?

Trusting old memories of what's good or not can be dangerous. I remember getting caught out once by CoreTemp which suddenly packed a load of dung in its default installer. :(
I recommend KDE, it feels a bit more well put together for a desktop these days.

With regards to your question about triple monitors. I mean, I managed to get triple monitors working on FreeBSD without much fuss so I am not sure of how much help I can be when I say "it should just work". I am obviously biased.

But, it's likely that it will just work, the open source drivers for AMD are significantly superior to the open source drivers for nVidia. Although I only have nVidia cards running and I have 2 setups with triple monitors.
If you look through the model breakdown about a quarter of those devices are 4 years old or more. Many of those are iPads, so it looks like iPads generally last longer than iPhones, supporting the theory that slowing iPad sales are partly due to long device lifespans.

Actually this may explain why more iPads are on older OS versions that iPhones - more of them are older devices with insufficient RAM to run recent OS versions.

So this data is strong evidence for the opposite of what you're saying. iOS devices have such long lifespans that they actually skew OS version adoption rates. You don't see that clearly for Android because even current devices on the market often come with several years old OS versions so you can't reliably infer released OS version from device recency as you can for iOS.
Has anyone ever made the argument that NASA images are international aid, because they help astronomers in other countries?
UPI is a private payment instrument. It has nothing to do with the Government. (BHIM is not a government app either, despite our PM promoting it)
> Strong core language libraries ("batteries included"), that come with your distribution

There's a running joke in python that stdlib is where modules go to die. Stdlib by definition needs to be more dependable and stable than other places. But that reduces the innovation. There's a reason urllib is terrible to use and we're on urllib3 now, yet the nicest solution (requests) is not included.

See http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to... This applies to some extent to all languages / runtimes.
MutationObserver could handle this case instead of the animationstart hack yeah. Here's one impl I found: https://github.com/azu/wait-for-element.js/blob/master/lib/w... (also rstacruz's referenced onmount lib also uses MutationObserver/matches())

(Mutation events deprecated since ~5 years ago, yes. )
You're conveniently forgetting all kinds of hardware driver issues and bugs and fixes in newer kernels that Android users will never get. Even if AOSP and Google update, the vast majority of devices don't run AOSP nor are Nexus/Pixel devices. And not all (security) issues can be fixed without an OS update either.

Not having to update your OS is not necessarily a virtue. Considering Apple provides updates for a good 5 years, I'd hardly consider it a problem to have to update every now and then.
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The title and conclusion is of course nonsense, but I really like the QA work this guy did. Most are valid points that hopefully someone from Apple makes sure get added to their internal issue tracker.
You simply need to provide a product that has value. If nobody is subscribing, that might be a message that your product isn't actually worth anything.
Fascinating, thank you.

I hope you also have time to reply to the comments from Sillysaurus3 and several others, regarding the reasoning and sources behind your impressive early prediction of MtGox's failure.
How do you think China is structurally different in this regard from the US?
"You either die a counterculture or you live long enough to become the culture."

The young/anti-establishment people of the 60's and 70's are the old/establishment people of today.
Not much point in uninstalling if you're going to format anyway.
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He's... the director of the Linux Foundation. It's like saying Nadia uses a Mac or Cook uses a Windows machine. I mean, the Linux Foundation is hardly a respected entity, but they could at least try to appear legitimate on the surface!
Consider the difference between hard and soft power. China can definitely wield a lot of the former with "rich and powerful", but the USA today wields both. Watch Chinese movies...even those...especially those with big budgets...and it becomes very clear that china has a problem.
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It is already on TechCrunch[0], the Google Blog[1], and the Google India Blog[2]. If that doesn't count for an official launch I don't know what does.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/17/google-debuts-tez-a-mobile...

[1]: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-asia/introducing-tez/

[2]: https://india.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-tez-mobile-...
Pension funds are large investors, so part of peoples savings are there. In general people don't save that much. Not even enough to retire comfortably. Many people prefer own houses instead.

Total market cap of SP500 is ~$20 trillion. Divided between US adults that is something like $80 thousand per adult.
> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!)

Amazon (the shopping website) is generally online when AWS goes down, so that doesn't really indicate anything.

Also, GCP is directly modeled after the infrastructure that Google uses to develop internally. I don't know if it's actually the same exact infrastructure that they sell as GCP, but it's not like they're developing GCP fresh and selling it.
These problems you bring up are a different order to the "grab stuff from wherever" culture that seems to have sprung up around a lot of languages lately.
What exactly is the WiFi connection and what standards are there?
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Well what matters is whether it is, or can even be, a convincing argument. Just saying things doesn't make them true.
That's would be an awesome alternative to PayPal. I wish them luck.

Edit: btw, we really need a public and free payment system, why are we giving to paypal and credit cards this incredible privilege? Paying with digital cash should be as inexpensive as paying with real cash.
I'm not involved in sales, so I can't really comment on what the licensing model is like.

> If you want to use something like immutable infrastructure SLES is painful to use, because you need to do everything through the SMT admin.

CaaSP nodes don't really have configurable packages (though I think that's something we're considering adding in the future). Everything is done using Kubernetes specifications, so you won't need to use SUMA to manage your nodes' running containers (though the admin panel is fairly similar when bootstrapping and maintaining a cluster).

> Sure you can use openSUSE, but it's not the same packages, it's not the same package versions, and the open repo, while nice, is imho not as comfortable to use as ubuntu packages.

This is something we've changed quite recently. You can figure out the package versions through Leap (and the SLE sources are actually visible in OBS from memory). There's also a "SUSE PackageHub" which is basically openSUSE backports that don't invalidate your license but are not directly supported (other than the same support we'd give to openSUSE issues). I think this is something I should raise with Richard Brown though, since on paper you should already have this information from the verbatim SLE sources we release that Leap is based on.

> By the way, there are a few more "ContainerOSs" than just CoreOS nowadays.

Yeah, though I expected (and was right) that people who work on those would be more knowledgable than me to comment on them. I work quite a lot with both of those groups on upstream stuff, so I'm well aware that they exist (in fact I've contributed to several Project Atomic projects in order to be able to re-purpose their code and use it with our OCI tooling[1]).

[1]: https://github.com/openSUSE/umoci
Fedora[0] might be what you're looking for. There are various "spins"[1] that use different desktop environments if the main one doesn't take your fancy. You can use a live image to try a few before you install.

[0] https://getfedora.org/
[1] https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
I also do not think the author or editor were removed from their positions
Yes I used to respect them as a regular reader but after that non-apology, I viewed them as a more sophisticated Gawker.
But you are not the Linux Foundation leader, I am sure that he or the foundation can buy a laptop that comes with full Linux support. At least use that in public and at home he can use Macs or Windows.
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”Eyes On The Road” might've been a reasonable assumption in the day before smartphones, but nowadays I'd advise against literally betting your life on it.
You should probably leave your email in your about page. Also - post your offer to /r/webdev, /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, etc. And tech specific subreddits - /r/python, /r/javascript, whatever you like. I'm sure you will find people eager to learn!
Why do they do staged rollouts instead of just releasing the OS for all ala iOS?
This plan strikes me as idiotic TBH. The Kremlin is situated smack dab in the center of the most populous city in Russia, Moscow. You can’t take out just the Kremlin without taking out millions of people in the process. And even if you could, the USSR would have no choice but to respond. It’s like someone nuked the White House. Rockets would be flying within minutes.

Nowadays there’s an automated system in place that ensures a response even if the entire high command is taken out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
Clickable: http://kreatortools.com

For reference, it would be really useful if you actually wrote a blog post or some sort of guide, and then post the link to that. As it is it's annoying to have to copy out the link, then visit, then think "I wonder what this is?"

Your description here is pretty minimal, it would be nice to see an example of what you've actually done with these tools, and why you've chosen them.
I mean, if the Linux Foundation ran their website on IIS, then sure, that would be a bad sign for Linux.

But given that the vast majority of products this foundation supports are server-oriented, it's clear that they are not as concerned about desktop usage at this time. So whether he's running Linux, Mac, or Windows on a laptop is pretty irrelevant.
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I would do the same, perhaps find some companies who does this and quote them.