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Fragmentation is one thing, but I don't think it's the main point. I've tried Desktop Linux many times. Mostly to avoid paying for Windows. And every time, there is something that I would like to do that I can't do, and then I'm back to Windows.

Whether it's some kind of website addin (things like video conferencing, or offline video player with DRM that require you to download an app), or some development tool (Visual Studio!), or some game, or my printer.

The issue is a catch 22: because Desktop Linux is not well adopted, companies don't develop for it. If companies don't develop for it, then there are things you can do on other systems that you can't do on Linux. And so Desktop Linux does not get more adoption...
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Nothing to see here - site displays a blank page that prompts for a login.
I see. So what do you intend it to become? Are you building a middleware to be inserted between, say, PyTorch and cuDNN? I'm training convnets and rnns written in PyTorch and TF on GPUs, how can I benefit from your work?
Very heavy headline for a very nuanced position by Linus.

It's an open secret that the ideal of choice fragments the focus of creating a tight UX on the desktop. You have to understand when you watch this video though that all Linus and the kernel team can do is make the kernel itself. The community is what will end up driving the desktop UX, and they haven't done a great job creating something that can capture the average PC user.

I am not sure if this is even a bad thing. My daily driver is a Dell laptop running Fedora and I don't think I'd change a thing aside from some minor UX gripes about Cinnamon. ChromeOS really is the best hope for mass Linux adoption, and I personally know people who hate the Linux desktop experience but use a Chromebook daily.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here other than my personal opinion that desktop Linux has found a local maximum and I think only the distros themselves can push DE volunteers to find something that has wider appeal (I'm not sure if that is even desirable, because again, I'm personally very happy with my experience).
I'm e-learning Linear Algebra right now to have a good math foundation for Machine Learning.

I was a History and Sociology major in college - so I didn't take any math.

If you are like me, and working off an initial base of high school math, I would recommend the following (all free):

Linear Algebra Foundations to Frontiers (UT Austin)
Course: https://www.edx.org/course/linear-algebra-foundations-to-fro...
Comments: This was a great starting place for me. Good interactive HW exercises, very clear instruction and time-efficient.

Linear Algebra (MIT OpenCourseware)
Course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...
Comments: This course is apparently the holy grail course for Intro Linear Algebra. One of my colleagues, who did an MS in EE at MIT, said Gilbert Strang was the best teacher he had. I started off with this but had to rewind to the UT class because I didn't have some of the fundamentals (e.g. how to calc a dot product). I'm personally 15% through this, but enjoying it.

Linear Algebra Review PDF (Stanford CS229)
Link: http://cs229.stanford.edu/section/cs229-linalg.pdf
Comments: This is the set of Linear Algebra review materials they go over at the beginning of Stanford's machine learning class (CS229). This is my workback to know I'm tracking to the right set of knowledge, and thus far, the courses have done a great job of doing so.
If you go over to /r/fitness there are some active and well informed people, so I'd have to disagree with you.
We routinely anesthetize infants with either local or general anesthesia. Here is a 2015 discussion from the American Society for Anesthesiology comparing regional with general: “General anesthesia safe for infants, does not impair neurological development, study finds” - https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2015/...
Bloomberg says it's a money market account. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-13/robinh...

Robinhood's checking page says "Robinhood Checking and Savings is an added feature to existing Robinhood accounts and is not a separate account or a bank account."
This is the third copy (spanning multiple sites) of this that this submitter has submitted today.

The same pattern holds for all submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ashley_l
Or a high jump into deep water.
Actual quote from Linus as opposed to the click-bait title:

> I still wish we were better at having a standardized desktop that goes across all the distributions. There's been some progress there. I mean, this is not a kernel issue, so this is just more of a personal annoyance how the fragmentation of the different vendors have, I think, held the desktop back a bit. But there has been some progress on that front too with Flatpak and things like that, so I'm still optimistic, but it's been 25 years. It's going to be another few years at least.
I doubt there’s a single reason why desktop linux failed. I do know why I stopped using it: driver support, lack of some of the commercial apps I wanted (and no good open source alternatives), constant rewriting of things that were fine as they were. The former two are indirectly caused by the lack of an ABI, the latter due to the nature of volunteer development work (maintaining is less fun than rewriting).
That opinion has been around for a while; see: One Frickin' User Interface for Linux (2003)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070830173313/https://cs.anu.edu...
I got half way through that article, and everything up to that point had been strawmen, so I gave up.

As for hubris, what is hubristic about trying to figure out how to build well?
> No Laibach!

They just released[1] a very interesting new album: their performance of The Sound Of Music in Pyongyang. Laibach is precisely the right choice to be the first western band allowed to perform in North Korea.

> while under actual totalitarian communism

Even the name "Laibach" itself - the name German occupying forces used for Ljubljana - was a blatant act of civil disobedience (they were banned from using the name under suspicion of being Nazi apologists).

> skin in the game

On the subject of bands making important music in spite of the risks... I suggest Palestinian hip-hop group "DAM"'s incredibly powerful protest song[2] against "honor killing".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/arts/music/laibach-north-...

[2] (the song is in Arabic; you might have to manually turn on Youtube's CC feature for English subtitles) [trigger warning: domestic violence, murdering women for "honor"] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnFbe7D9pY
Maybe $YEAR_OF_THE_LINUX_DESKTOP isn't 2018, but I don't think the clickbait title saying that desktop Linux has failed is fair. We're light-years ahead of where we were in 2011, let alone 2007. The majority of users who now try Linux desktops do so without any real workflow-breaking issues.
Graphics card drivers and printer drivers often work out of the box for me. All things considered, I think desktop Linux is doing very well.
I wonder if they'll give any of that to OpenStreetMap.
Yes, I have packages left on my doorstep constantly. I live in an area where package theft is uncommon (I’ve never experienced it or had a neighbor tell me they have), so just dropping packages on my porch is extremely convenient.
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Mixing music over the voice did not work for this video.
Android shows how you do it. You get a big company with tons of money that wants to seriously build a working platform from end to end. If a company with pockets deep enough had stepped up to create a 3rd viable platform for consumers based on Linux, we'd have it. Mark Shuttleworth's pockets were not deep enough. System76's pockets aren't deep enough. It would have to have been a company like HP or Dell. Dell played with consumer side Linux but never found it lucrative to go all in.
Basically nothing new in this interview. I used to really like this guy's ideas but then I got over it once I accepted that most real world issues are non-binary.
> Even around ten years ago it was a much different place, with much more freedom of expression (you could find fascinating discussions of democracy by leading figures on Weibo, for example) [0] and a slow process of liberalization.

And ten years before that, it was using deadly military force to subdue similar democratic thoughts in Tiananmen Square.
The biggest gotcha for Semantic UI is that it requires FlexBox support which is extremely buggy (or non-existent) in IE 10 and 11. Edge is OK (mostly), but there are a lot of users still on IE 10/11.
Several months ago, I was doing ping geolocation on a bunch of VPN servers. To see if they're actually located where claimed. I looked at several AirVPN servers, claimed to be in Hong Kong. Based on data from hundreds of probes, they did in fact seem to be in Hong Kong.

However, minimum(rtt) was ~300 msec for probes in several mainland locations, some <100 km from Hong Kong. Why might that have been?
all Linus and the kernel team can do is make the kernel itself

In some sense that's a self-imposed limitation. Linus could have chosen to create an OS (like BSD) instead of a kernel.
Read vermilingua's Wikipedia link on Illegal Numbers. This was in 2012, which lines up with the reference cited on Wikipedia for the GFW blocking the numbers 89, 6, and 4. They reversed course after getting called out for this being brain dead.
And then there's some companies more invested in the idea of it and having an alternative to Windows like Valve that continue to build for Linux anyways.
It has to be a joke as it is illegal in the US.

Edit: Upon further reading, seems like someone is actively trying to make this happen.

https://support.tontinetrust.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-t...
Can't read the article because I have extremely spotty internet but I would like to react to the headline.

I have been promoted through the ranks over the years, job hopped a bit. I've had awesome managers and horrible managers. MBA will never mean "yes they're awesome" or "no they're horrible".

What I would say though is, can we make up our minds if an MBA is useful or not? Some employers only hire MBAs for specific functions, and Costco is seemingly the opposite.

Humble laborers like us don't have decades for the markets to work themselves out (thanks finance industry for prolonging the lifespan of inefficient companies).

It isn't right that someone who is a good employee and takes out a ton of debt for a piece of paper that was once required is now penalized for it.

And I don't even have an MBA!
Ask HN: Nice lifestyle bootstrapped businesses
HN community - I figured there was no better place to ask this than here. For people who have started their own businesses, side hustles really in addition to their day jobs - how did you figure out the market? Are there books or podcasts on what you would recommend people like me to read or listen to to get an idea of what markets have niches that can be monetized?
Well, you just wait - Microsoft is going to come to our rescue: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microso...
There's no quiet option?
You're confusing UX with UI. You can have an excellent UX that's still just a CLI.
> petty theft doesn't really cause that much damage

Sure it does. Insurance rates. Compare rates for San Francisco vs. Houston for comprehensive coverage. Or San Francisco vs. Cupertino for that matter. Every smash and grab costs everyone more money.

Prop 47 is a big culprit. These thieves can cause $1000 in damage to a car, but their prosecution is pretty much pointless.

If we want to talk cost benefit analysis, prosecuting armed robbery with no injuries doesn’t make sense either: if the robber gets $100, and it costs $100,000 to imprison them, then that’s a bad cost benefit return right? If you want to operate under a cost benefit analysis, jail time should only be required if whatever damage is done exceeds the cost of incarceration. That’s absurd, but that’s what a cost benefit analysis would reveal, assuming costs are measured in dollars.

Broken windows policing works [1].

https://cebcp.org/evidence-based-policing/the-matrix/micro-p...
To restart a process if it crashes?
Desktop Linux is like the Hogworts limit of academic incentives: wonderful baubbles to play with appear constantly, as if from thin air, but you're never getting an Air Force or intercontinental shipping system out of it.
Surprised Ring doesn’t have a buffer to pull from to go back in time for motion detection (typing on phone or I would go look).

Blue Iris and most NVR software lets you specify an arbitrary length buffer. It eats some memory, but nice to get context. I very much doubt Ring exposes an RTSP stream locally though.
Robinhood doesn't make money on commissions, but they do make money with payment for order flow [1]. So they wouldn't want to put a cap on the number of trades you can make.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paymentoforderflow.asp
Currently, it supports GitHub, Slack, CircleCI and Google Cloud Build to trigger any custom code in Docker containers. Are there any other specific integrations you would like to have?
Write Your Own Virtual Machine
Linux desktop has not failed and desktop environments competition is a major reason why it is getting better and better. Many people love GNOME3 (and it is a de-facto standardized desktop) but I hate it and love KDE5 (and so do many other people). I hated Unity at the beginning and switched to XFCE when it was introduced but once Unity got improved I've began considering it a perfect desktop. Tiling WMs are awesome (pun intended) for particular tasks on particular display configurations. I also hope somebody is going to implement a Haiku-like WM on Linux or invent something entirely new. Diversity is good!
I don't think the Linux desktop has failed. If popular adoption is the standard then MacOS is also a failure of sorts. At the end of the day, there was just no reason for anyone except enthusiasts to end up with linux on their machine since with rare exceptions you literally couldn't buy it anywhere. If you don't build software, you have pretty much zero incentive to use a linux desktop, especially when factoring in the monumental software compatibility hurdles for non-technical users.
There's a short term group loaning 'game' in Cambodia called and based on Tontine, which I would guess comes from the French influence.

The game is played by groups who agree on a monthly stake. Each month players offer an interest rate they're willing to pay (more like a tax), the highest rate is awarded the collective pot, less the interest which is redistributed to the other 'living' players.

Players who have already received the pot are 'dead' and do not collect their share of interest in future rounds (meaning they must pay the full stake). Once everyone is dead, the game ends. Some will have come out ahead, others may have been able to get a lump of cash when they needed it
Sure, but realistically, that makes no difference when (A) only one browser ever implemented it, and (B) its continued use by its originator company _despite_ deprecation last year (after its team was destaffed two years ago) still stinks of an attempt at lock-in, open source or not.
Huh. I don't have much of a problem going in to a bank branch, given that there's one every half mile. A quick in-person meeting is fine compared to the shitstorm of unusable menus and nearly unintelligible communication that is calling your bank on a cell phone.

(I mean it would be great if there were a bank that did all its customer service over text chat, but that's too much to ask for, right?)
They aren’t just stealing dummy packages though. If a worker would steal a dummy package, they would steal a “real” package. And those loses mean we all pay more for stuff. Theft, even petty stuff like shoplifting means everything costs more — and that’s regressive; poor people would be disproportionately affected by increased costs due to theft.
Selection bias. Scouts are over-represented in US military academies, and nearly all astronauts were officers (especially early on).

Calling ~57% "most" is a bit of a stretch.[0]

You're assuming that only scouts can do great things (hint: you're wrong).

0. https://brandongaille.com/16-awesome-eagle-scout-statistics/
Failed? I got rid of windows back in the windows 98 blue screen days. I've been using Linux desktops ever since
Yeah, Linus is in a power position and could lean on teams to create his vision of Linux on the desktop. But he's a very tech oriented guy and that's ok. He has a tech vision of what the core of the OS should do, and I think the community needs that as much as a person who guides the frontend vision (which is absent for now).
The End of the Ad-Supported Web
This would clash with the AWS documentation and re:invent discussions:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Instance...
>This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer.

https://youtu.be/eWFEJmsddV0?t=1400
VMware Paid $550M for Heptio to Boost Its Kubernetes Portfolio
After reading this book (or during), take a look at the author's (Boyd) video lectures on linear dynamical systems: https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE263/

There is a lot of overlap between the book and the course.
Goric Playgrounds picks Bollore as their logistics partner – Supply Chain
How you can become victim of Google AdWords?
Your first comment is the sort we're ok with in this community, but the one I'm replying to isn't welcome.
>The government doesn't need to know that I bought a car brand y for x

What, you're making no sense, the government absolutely needs to know the make, model, and purchase price of any vehicle you buy. This is a standard part of various title and registration forms.

>Sure, businesses that use stable-coins with "high degree of usefulness in criminal matters" can register and file reports who whoever they need to, just like their cash counterparts - I don't see a problem with that.

One of these reports is a written plan that documents the efforts you're going through to prevent money laundering. If this plan isn't good enough, surprise, you get shut down.
No, it didn't.

The same idea made the web. Commercialization of the web was what caused the disaster.
Is there anything preventing the Linux Foundation jumping in and officially supporting a desktop environment? Is it because the two main DE’s are already more-or-less backed by a foundation and the LF hopping in would fragment it even further?

Ubuntu tried for a while to lead their own efforts (MIR/Unity) and in the end, they pulled the plug and decided to just adopt Wayland/Gnome. Do people consider this a good change for the linux desktop landscape?
Butt time productivity
This is a beautiful book and a great intro to the basics of linear algebra. All the figures in the book are generated in Julia and there’s a companion book with Julia code for computational examples:

http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/vmls-julia-companion.pdf
They want backdoors but are afraid of Huawei spying on everything and everyone.
If you read my earlier posts logs vs metrics doesn't matter in this context and hence why I said to stream to clickhouse-client...
Dammit. Could have sold them for ~ $8.75 when this came out. It is $4 now. :-/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/YRIV?ltr=1
The Complicated Truth About C-sections
This doesn't seem like a solution to me but rather a symptom of a much deeper problem in the way that we write and document code.
Paris subway comes to mind...
Would you be so kind to specify them if you happen to know? The philosophical definition I've found is "Capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals." But I have never thought about "the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals" (I actually don't feel myself separate, I feel being a part of the collective body, a part equipped with a mind of its own) part and I doubt I have a correct idea of what the colloquial usage of the term is.

What I mean under conscious self-awareness is the difference between the non-lucid dream/daydreaming/flow state and the awake mindfullness state when you consciously observe everything and yourself, don't associate yourself nor the surrounding reality with your emotions and judgement (remember these are just a particularly quirky map rather than the territory) and are capable of conscious non-conditioned reasoning and acting.

There seemingly is a middle option of not-really-conscious basic self-awareness that is when a person neither sleeps nor observes their subjective perception as a distinct object (which neither is their actual self nor does it represent the actual reality around them reliably).
For existing Linux users, the situation is indeed fantastic. We have lots of choices and we're aware of this.

But if you think of "Year of the Linux Desktop" as the point in time where you can get the Windows-using masses to switch, diversity is a big problem. People don't want to be told that they have to make umpteen choices about what software to use if they want to use a different OS, they want a cookie cutter experience.

This is why "Windows like" is a selling point for many DEs/distros. It's the McDonald's principle: everywhere you go a Big Mac is a Big Mac. You don't have to worry about figuring out what appeals to you in the local cuisine.
Not only that. I'd venture to say no desktop is near as good as the Linux desktop. (For a certain type of user, I should qualify.)

Don't get me wrong; there are issues. X is a system from a different era. (Graphics) Performance is pretty bad, the effects are janky, the primitives disparate.

But! As a "power user" I dread having to use any other system. On Linux, there is an incredible variety of window managers, file navigators, terminal emulators, etc. The whole gamut.

My workflow revolves around i3 and my i3 configuration. I have sworn off macs, and when I use windows, I have learned to press Super+1 for Firefox and Super+2 for Steam. Beyond that is a dark forest which I refuse to explore!
Why not make the Amazon links affiliate links? I don't think anyone would mind
> The workers don’t want the system to be changed.

Certainly not in traditionally tipped industries like restaurant servers where tipping culture is strong. The new jobs that employers are trying to make tipped may not have the same feature, especially those which both already have a service charge and try to push tipping. OTOH, maybe the tip pushing is more successful than I think.
California considers adding text messaging tax
As has been already pointed out, this isn't really what Linus said.

And, in any event, fragmentation has nothing to do with it.

Ordinary users (and even many advanced users) don't install operating systems. And one has to go out of their way to buy a machine with Linux pre-installed (and ordinary users don't go out of their way, certainly not for something that they know little or nothing about).

If real (decent) machine with Linux on them were sold in Best Buy etc. there would be substantially more users of desktop Linux. Let's not pretend that multiple distributions is the reason.
> the market has decided

Like do you understand what an externality is? When I say it's not huge enough, it's pretty clear that I don't mean Equifax is overvalued & people should all go out and short it. The lawmakers and regulators have decided that the externality will have no significant consequences. The market hardly decides anything here; it reacts.

My reading of the reports is that this company was roughly in line with common practices. My point is that common practices must change.
My experience as well. Schwab customer service compared to my other checking is consistently and notably better.

For me the killer is no foreign transaction fees. If Robinhood allows world wide ATM + no foreign transaction fees I'd switch in a heartbeat. I dont use Schwab for equities, I use Robinhood & Wealthfront