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I've recommended Fedora to several "I'm scared of computers" people recently and the experience has been very good. The new GNOME does require 5 minutes of tutorial, but after that they've been completely happy exploring on their own.

The new "Software" app is an excellent GUI for installing new apps and updating the system.

Personally I use Macs but if I didn't, Fedora would probably be my next choice. It has by far the best "out of the box" experience of any Linux distro I've seen.
Is it too cynical to wonder if the NTSB had been more involved with the investigation, that we’d be hearing pilot suicide explanations to protect Boeing?
We clearly have different definitions for the word fiasco.
The project is interesting and I have to give it props for being one of the few Linux distros that’s put the necessary level of thought into UI/UX and made consistency a priority.

That said, I question some of their technical choices, most namely the choice of Vala as the project’s official language. Not that Vala is bad, but it’s incredibly niche at best and I think it severely limits contributions. Not many are going to want to learn a new language that’s scarcely used elsewhere in order to be able to work on any kind of project.
Yea I found this a very weird thing to say, as engineering talent was a huge reason for choosing New York, and is a resource that New jersey does not have in anywhere near the same abundance.

I am curious where they would've chosen had subsidies actually been illegal, as this author says we should do. My guess is that they would've ended up in, you guessed it, New York and Virginia, regardless.
They are fake internet points and don't matter. Making comments about downvotes usually means more downvotes.

While votes are usually reserved for content quality, HN also finds them acceptable for disagreement in opinion, so most likely people disagree that stock K8S is easier to setup than the managed offerings.
A non-chronological CV is somewhat unusual, to be fair to the recruiter (not something I’d often say!)
There's no need to go that deep.

Imagine you were taking a trip to Dallas. You're taking PTO, paying for flight/hotel, and so on.

Are you really going to waste time buying a local's 30% off card on ebay that you will use once a year? Maybe once in your life? No way.

Even if you did, what is the result? A handful of people hustled you for a few bucks, but still generated profit for your restaurant.
"Investigators and experts are uncertain why Lion Air Flight 610 plummeted...But they are focusing on an automatic system designed to keep..."

That's the opener. Seems reasonable to me.
Large systems whose normal operation relies on the availability of one or a small number of individual components are by definition less reliable, less robust to attacks, and less resilient to disasters than large distributed systems which don't have such reliance and therefore operate smoothly in the face of routine failure of a significant portion of their individual components.

This is true for geographic networks, economic and financial systems, software-as-a-service applications, and even potato variety in farming systems.[a]

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Potato_...
The entire tech sector is being funded with advertising money. Monetization of personal data is the elephant in the room that nobody in the industry wants to talk about ever.
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> I don't think it's hard to explain: it's the cities' equivalent to cartelization. It's no wonder why two competing firms would like to prevent each other from lowering prices, and they often lobby for laws to do that. The mechanism here is the same.

A city or a state isn't a "firm." It's not seeking the private profit of its owners: it's seeking the welfare of its citizens, which is part of seeking the welfare of all the citizens of a nation. When it comes to government, "cartelization" isn't a bad thing, because it keeps private interests from exploiting public divisions to harm the common good for private gain.

Cartels prevent "races to the bottom," but some of those are actually good for society (e.g. the race to the lowest price per unit of product-value). Other races to the bottom are bad for society (e.g. lowest standard of living per worker), and government cohesion can help prevent them by resisting the private interests that benefit.
Oh man, I would hate to be in a place where I would constantly be reading e-mail.
I disagree that GCP offers better core services than AWS and in areas like Data Science or Serverless GCP has almost nothing to offer.

And one of the advantages of having a zillion different products approach is that you can trust AWS to grow with you and improve their products over time. Same can't be said of GCP.
Yea _reading_ the linked article goes into all of this.
Must have been Freya, then.
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In a similar vein we have a lot of bakeries here run by a local Vietnamese population. They do these amazing pork rolls for $5, which is very cheap for food in Australia (A big Mac meal is around $12 for perspective). They are popular because of the price and if they were $7 they would sell far far less.
Seems like people agree with you. From what I can tell, the 117 apps on their 'store' seem to all be made by them or contributors to the project.

I may be wrong about this, but at a quick glance it looked like stuff that would be mostly included in other desktop environments.

This is just my impression from skimming through it.
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This sounds like a super good idea to me, I really love it. Seems pretty simple but just makes a lot of sense.

Any person travelling just coming by for the "best burger" probably would not want to spend $34 and not use that card anymore so $20 sounds great. Any regular would probably be super cool with paying that extra $30 knowing they can get a burger once a week or whatever for $4. This works out for the restaurant and the regulars, and like you said they can just hand out those cards to anyone for any reason.
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https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=33250
Matplotlib is often a dependency for Python dataviz libraries.

I often just skip the middlemen and use it directly.

Matplotlib isn't going away any time soon.
I used El.OS for 3 straight years and had to drop it for business reasons. The OS is excellent. Highly recommend it if you are not bound by your business needs.
What lengths and widths of wood can you buy from the lumberyard?

What is the common width and thickness of drywall sheet you can buy and the hardware store? What door sizes are available? What size of screws are cheaply available in Canada?

I think these factors are far more likely to affect what unit of measure is commonly used in construction, rather than any intrinsic merit of the measurement system. If you were shopping at a Japanese or German hardware store, you'd probably suddenly find all of those 12 foot dimensions quite frustrating and not be at all surprised to find the hard-hat-wearing locals happily using the metric system for the same tasks.
I think it'd be overkill if what you have is working for you. At least, replacing what you have may not be worth it.

For me, there's various properties I like about pachyderm (though they're missing some key workflows I'd like). Looking at some output data, I can see exactly what versions of everything was run against what data, and the data is all version controlled. This should also allow experimentation by individual people and easier approval of updates. I work with multiple teams with many components, where each one may impact others - being able to look at some final result that's weird and go back to figure out what's going on is hard. Tools like pachyderm help with that.
Yes. General compute and storage is already commodity.
I completely disagree with your opinion, but to each their own. Also, people are comfortable with the 2.5 hour wait (or more!) because they can just go hang in one of the many bars in the area during that time.
Fedora is my daily driver, and I think it really strikes a good balance between stability, security, and bleeding edge.

Having said that, I hesitate to recommend Fedora to newbies. Some things about it can be scary and unpredictable. SELinux is enabled by default, and gnome shows audit2allow notifications every time there is an AVC denial. Someone coming from windows will be scared by seeing dozens of errors the very first time they boot into a clean OS. Additionally, Fedora tends to adopt new technology very early. Gnome has defaulted to Wayland for over a year, and the experience was badly broken at first. These types of things require experience to work through.

I don't personally use gnome, so none of this bothers me. But the defaults aren't what I would call "sane" for a new user.
HN has in-feed ads for Y Combinator businesses. A great example of benevolent, win-win advertising, in my opinion.
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GCP doesn't need to figure out how to sell to enterprises.

They need to offer a better product with more features, support etc. Because adoption within the enterprise isn't driven by the CEO or CTO. It's driven by individual architects and developers.
And ten minutes should certainly be enough to do that. For that matter, if you're constantly pulling back the yoke to stay level... Wouldn't you try setting the trim manually?
That's funny, I built the same thing for our Slack (I wish I'd known about notnil/chess; I tediously wrote out the rules for chess). I managed to do without assets, though, except for a typeface that had chess piece glyphs. :)
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...so Microsoft's own version of something? Got it.
The US government already has a legitimate way to stop air travel. And the government already has significant persuasive power; if the Secretary of the Treasury asked all the banks to stop electronic transactions for a legitimate reason, I'm sure they'd comply.

So what you're talking about is neither a legal government power or something where people would trust the government and follow along. You're looking for a way for the people in power to seize further power illegally when they think it appropriate. There's no "for good" there; that's just authoritarians undermining the rule of law.
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I was shacked up with a girl in Harbin for 250 a month for the two of us, which is like an 87% discount compared to Shanghai and NY, I definitely agree.

But, I didn't go to Harbin for a squeaky clean experience. I went there for its grime and cheapness, and I felt the surveillance was tolerable for the price.

Singapore is like a Chinese Miami. For the price, I'd just go to Miami or Brisbane.
I feel like the problem there is that it would require expending a lot of effort to solve what will probably be a temporary problem. That kind of system isn't going to be cheap, and the high traffic will only last as long as the list in question is popular. As soon as another 'best burger place' comes along, all that traffic is probably going to die down, and now you're a small diner left with this complex expensive system.

It reminds me a lot of the dilemma facing graphics card makers recently, wherein the cards keep getting bought up by cryptocurrency miners. If they raise prices, they're pricing out of the regular customers who will stick around after the cryptocurrency mining dies down, and if they raise their production capacity too much then they will be left with massive overcapacity with things die down.
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Aristotle thought the low-hanging fruit had been picked in his time. (I didn't keep the original quote, but it said roughly that most important knowledge that could be figured out probably would be within a few lifetimes.)

This may be accurate in delimited fields like fundamental physics (though even there you have to wonder when you reflect on e.g. the half-century between Turing and Deutsch/Feynman with no one picking up quantum computing). But our understanding of nature is so tiny compared to what's out there. We're only a small percentage of the way to understanding even our own biology in full. Why would the frontier of available discoveries become much poorer, relative to our abilities if deployed well, long before useful discoveries run out? Maybe they really do, and we won't really know until we can look back much later, but it's not how I'd bet.
Oh please, the Au Cheval wait has been ridiculous for at least 5 years now. If you have friends and you drink, it’s very easy to plan to hang at one of the bars that’re close by for a couple of hours.
"And once IBM launches their cloud"

Interesting. Is it just another rename (Softlayer -> BlueMix -> ?). Or something else?
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Its not too different from c#, and it's very popular for writing gtk applications.
What's the deal? Don't you guys have little secrets around town that you kind of want to respect, have a little bit of culture around?
> Someone coming from windows will be scared by seeing dozens of errors the very first time they boot into a clean OS.

I'm not sure what you're describing here. I've never seen one error after a new install, let alone dozens. The SELinux errors must be pretty rare because I've never had any complaints about them.
Good article. The most hopeful thing in it is their response to the development of reusable rockets "We feel a strong sense of crisis."

Good. They should. It's an innovation that is changing the industry with extreme rapidity. Almost universally, the established players in the sector -- both domestically and internationally -- have been in a state of extreme denial about this, making increasingly tortured arguments for why reusability isn't worthwhile or even possible to do. The longer they remain in this state, the more they undermine their future. Nice to see that Japan is confronting this head-on (even if there is still a bit of denial evident).

The end of the article, talking about women's participation in the workforce, isn't just political correctness. Japan has a big problem here, and it will impair their ability to innovate.

This isn't just about having women in senior leadership positions (although that's not unimportant). Watch the SpaceX webcast and you'll see that their crowds of (often very young) engineers are thronging with women, minorities, people who've dialed their queerness up to 11, etc. What's going on here? I don't think that SpaceX's hiring practices involve much affirmative action; from everything I've heard, intelligence, passion, and commitment are the qualities they hire for. But, critically: they give zero points for fitting into the culture of old grey company men. This differentiates SpaceX from the establishment and gives them an abundance of bright young things that are clearly fuel innovation.

The culture of old grey company men is something that Japan has bad. They do have some traditions which act to counteract this -- a practically spiritual commitment to quality of service & craftsmanship has driven Japanese innovation for centuries -- but that's not going to be enough to compete.
I once waited in line at Hot Doug's and when I reached the front, a dude in a limo pulled up and offered to buy my place in line for $100. I didn't take him up on it, but one of the dudes I was there with did!

It turns out though that there was a secret to Hot Doug's, which is that you could just fax an order in and then skip the line to pick it up. I always worried that the line would murder me when I did that.
The social sciences are stuck in a vicious cycle of politics, not technicals: There is tons of behavioral science and evolutionary biology that they continue to ignore.
Pirate Bay was estimated in the millions and well, Google is tens of billions of course :)
What king of large system does not have smaller components that are relied upon?
I briefly flirted with contributing to the project, but the code was a horrendous mess and the build system was worse (CMake mess; most of the dependencies were implicit; etc). Vala aims to be intuitive for C# developers, which is a nice goal but everything is built on the trashfire that is GObject and the Vala abstraction leaks like a seive. Hopefully much of that was fixed with time, but I doubt GObject is any better these days.
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> But would definitely be arrested and extradited

Don't forget tortured. Manning was tortured prior to trial, as determined by the UN following an investigation[1].

Indeed, Manning attempted suicide twice under this "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" (words from the UN).

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-mannin...
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Yeah it has a lot of state that's not very pythonic (and I almost always use it from c++ or cling) but it is very good for semiinteractive plotmaking that's not possible in something like matplotlib. A lot of ROOT's legacy from the 90's shows, but ROOT6 has made a lot of progress.
> Again, as mentioned elsewhere, my problem with WikiLeaks is has taken a side.

Being anti-Democratic Party is not inherently being pro-anyone-else. The Democratic Party was being shady as fuck and regardless of who you or they prefer to be or not be president, exposing their corruption was valuable and useful—irrespective of where that information came from or who it may have indirectly benefited. I do not think the results from that publication constitutes Wikileaks "taking a side".

People could make the argument that they could have assumed that publishing would have had a certain outcome or effect upon the election, but one cannot reasonably assert that they would have had to reach the exact same conclusion about the effects of publishing. It's a big stretch to ascribe motive or bias based on your assumption that you can't assert someone else must have made (especially without the benefit of hindsight).

Which "side" precisely do you think Wikileaks has taken, and what specific facts support such a conclusion?
respectfully, what remotely well-trained doctor _didn't_ realize that part about an opiate being only a minor addiction risk was obviously bullshit?
> they start with the assumption that every possible ordering is equally likely

If the times in each run are independent, this assumption is (for some distributions) the weakest form of "X is not faster than Y."

For a distribution where this is not the case: assume

- X always runs in 999 seconds, and

- Y runs in 1000 seconds in 99% of runs and in 0 seconds the other 1% of the time.

Then XXXYYY is a very likely ordering (~97% chance), though Y runs faster than X "on average". (Not in median or mode though.)

For a more concrete example: say you have two sorting algorithms, one that is a little slower most of the time, but worst case O(n log n), and another that is usually a bit faster but can be O(n^2) on pathological input.
It was metricized with all the rest before that. What happened in 59 was harmonization with other countries including Canada, who had a different agreement on the metric yard. The older american definition was 1 yard = ​3600/3937 meter. The international metric yard is exactly 0.9144m. (A difference of 0.002mm)
I'm a local. I've eaten a burger at Stanich's, way before any of this happened (apparently? I'm just now learning about it). It was fine, but calling it the best burger in America is extremely overselling it. Oregon has a law that you need to serve some kind of food if you sell hard liquor, and that's pretty much what their burgers felt like, an afterthought to fill OLCC regulations.

It was a place for old dudes to get a Budweiser and watch the basketball game, which perhaps made it one of the more authentic places in town (if that's all it takes, I know dozens of places in Minnesota you'll love), but definitely not the best place to get a burger.

If you want a much, much better burger in Portland, go to the Super Deluxe, or go to Yakuza and order theirs, or even Killer Burger, or really just about any other place. Portland is an extremely competitive food town that regularly has burger competitions (http://www.portlandburgerweek.com/), and there are dozens if not hundreds of places where you can get a burger that will be better.

I understand that the article isn't necessarily about this, but I'm having trouble walking away from what I know from direct experience is a ridiculous decision. To give a perspective on how ridiculous this is to me, if I was asked to name just Portland's 50 best burger places, I'm not sure Stanich's would be on it. It's not negligent because he unleashed the internet hordes on this place, it's negligent because the burgers there just weren't very good.
What advantages does Elementary have over (its upstream) Ubuntu? It just looks like a different GTK/GNOME Shell theme to me.
Nassim Taleb's wonderful book "Antifragile" was about exactly this topic.
Interesting article! Of course, scientists should work on the topic as the app developers want to attract as many users as possible. Everything is in our heads!
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In the past I’ve had serious issues with drivers in Fedora — once in the past on a cheap laptop where getting sound working 100% was near impossible and I accidentally bricked the system installing RPMs in the process.

More recently I had a Fedora update eat my Broadcom wifi drivers which isn’t fun to fix when you don’t have an easy way to hardwire a connection and your cell connection is too weak to tether reliably.
I didn't see anything remotely like A/B/C testing. They might benefit from something like that.
As an electrical engineer that actually does electrical things they publish some immensely useful information, eg The Color Book series.

Additionally they are regularly publishing information at the forefront of contemporary thinking and practice.

They are at least 1000 times more useful than the national body in my country, Engineers Australia.
It’s just forcing you to confront the fact that you’re using software that others put a lot of effort into, for free. A simple fix to quell the bad feelings would be donate a few bucks. Win/win.