skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a Macbook Air (Mid 2011) and run Arch Linux on it. Works fine, only thing that doesn't work is the Thunderbolt port. I picked the Air because the model was on its second year and had a history of people having Linux run on it. The touchpad works fine with xf86-input-mtrack, which lets you customize some of the finer details on the trackpad.
... Just my two cents.
I bought an Asus Zenbook. It works pretty well, I installed Ubuntu on it using these instructions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook

There were some manual configurations, as you can see, but for the most part everything works fine...
Don't Burn Bridges, And Don't Be A Jerk
Heck I have to do the same with mine but really if you just plug it in before you go to bed it should be fine.

And if I really wanted longer battery time I could just pickup a dump phone with the contents of my small change jar.
Notice also that the new LTE-enabled iPad doesn’t sacrifice
battery life compared to its 3G predecessor.

Between generation 2 and 3, the iPad battery increased in capacity from 25 watt-hours to 42.5, a 60% increase.

It's a safe generalization to describe the iPad as "a large battery with a thin layer of electronics wrapped around it": http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/3
I haven't heard of System76 before but their pricing is pretty competitive not to mention they claim to officially support a linux distro. Thanks for sharing :)
It's a pity, I can't imagine I'm the only person in the world who shudders at the idea that my computer should be made 'easy' for me (at the expense of flexibility and power). I'm a type of customer, just as much as the so called 'average user' is.
The Galaxy Nexus extended battery does exactly this... I guess the device couldn't just ship with the good battery because god forbid you add any thickness to the device.
Actually, what I'm working on involves both front-end and back-end. I've got a UI that trades data back and forth with a web service endpoint called Integration Broker within PeopleSoft. I'm focused on enrollment right now, and currently I've got a system that allows me to enroll in classes using the new UI on a live PeopleSoft install - all without touching/modifying the business logic in the delivered vanilla PeopleSoft implementation.

Re. the PeopleSoft copy - Oracle provides all of their software (and master license codes) for download for evaluation purposes through a portal called eDelivery. I had to read a few hundred pages of documentation, but after a month I was able to get all the components to talk together. I'm trying to convince Oracle to give me a non-support license so I can cover myself legally, but I'm getting the silent treatment since it's just me and I don't have the budget of a CTO lol.
Can you give examples or links that explain what sort of "tweaking" you're referring to?
Devbootcamp appears to be the real deal. I have emailed Shereef a couple times, but the real deal breaker = the start dates. I would have to wait 3 months (june 10th) and I would prefer to start ASAP.

That said, I would love to hear a little about your experience. Do you think it was worthy of the time commitment? I have considered doing both!
unfortunately, not necessarily. I think they wouldnt care how high profile the case is. Even it its the mount everest case and it will be clear that X fucked up, knowing how the world of law enforcement works (cops dont tell on each other), there would be no consequences whatsoever. IF media would hung for too long on this issue, they may move X to a different position, temporarily, but rest assure it was definitely worth for cops to take a "risk".
Phones 30% to 50% larger would be disastrous. Uncomfortable, just too big. I think the way phones are now is about right. Still a bit too large to basically disappear in your pocket, but small enough to not be annoying.

It's not about fashion. Making phones larger would be a stupid idea indeed.
Shepherding Content to a New E-Commerce Platform
I a way, you could think of the generator function as an object with a specific interface.

In fact, I think that's how generators are implemented in python, the language just hides this fact away from the programmer.
Why you should contribute to open source projects
Given that it is the prosecution who raised the problem, I am not 100% sure I'd agree with you.

This looks an awful lot like another examples of "incompetence, not malice".
Unless it may reflect an overall careless (or worse, abusive) attitude by the various prosecution teams. This is a tough case, involving many jurisdictions and different civil, criminal and process law and, worse of all, driven by economic pressure by companies that are being questioned on many levels for using law enforcement as thugs, as well as other shady business practices.

If they want to win this case, they'd better do all their homework flawlessly, dot all i's and cross all t's. If they don't, it will set a precedent that will frame future cases like this.

And there will be many more of them.
Based on a post from last week, I created a static Jekyll blog on github and CNAME'd my personal website over to it. I love the outcome. I got the idea via a post the other week and cloned the repository to build my own blog. It uses Twitter Bootstrap under the hood and you can clone my repo to make your own as well!

https://github.com/cballou/cballou.github.com
Google couldnt find anything to prove this to me, but if its true then how the country can properly function (UK) if cops can do whethever the heck they want to as long as they get the "evidence" as a result. no idea.
will this work on remote flash files?
The keyboard is fine but the lack of home/end/pgup/pgdn is indeed a royal pain in the ass.

After 3 years of running OSX on my Macbooks one would think I should be used to it by now. But it still annoys me enough so that I use an external keyboard for any programming work.
I don't use the official Google Voice SIP server as I didn't have a Gizmo5 account before it was shut down. I just use an sipgate.com account added to my Google Voice account. If you're worried about latency, you could try using the undocumented Gmail Google Voice API through GrooVe IP (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip) to get a direct connection to Google Voice.
I would be very surprised if the (US) government were to try to "shut down" Bitcoin. Perhaps regulate it. Perhaps harass an individual entity using Bitcoin.

I believe we have a protected right to use technology like Bitcoin. To make it illegal you would have to deny me the right to:

1. Free communication/speech.
2. Identify myself (authentication/digital signatures).
3. Retain private information (keys).
4. Trade with other people.

The government has an interest in requiring me to report Income so that they can check if I've paid my taxes. But this is no different than any other cash or barter transaction.

It would require a very restrictive police state to outlaw the use of Bitcoin as a technology.
Studies on this, meditation, TDCS, bright lights (the no brainer heh) and musical training on brain development in young children and brain activity in adults (written in my 2nd language)

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/216086-Mental-muscle-six-w...
When you attach 'keypress' event it will give char code which can be easily converted to sign, e.g.:

document.addEventListener('keypress', function(event) {
sign = String.fromCharCode(event.charCode);

if (sign === 'A') {
console.log('Pressed shift+a');
}
else if (sign === 'c' && event.ctrlKey) {
console.log('Pressed ctrl+c');
}
});

I have tested this technique with several layouts (azerty, dvorak, bepo) and it seems to be working fine. For special keys such as enter, esc or backspace you will have to listen for 'keydown' event instead.
School for Quants - Inside UCL’s Financial Computing Centre
Well. You're getting downvoted for wishing death on people you've never met.

>The good news is it will evolve and improve, and soon enough the grey beards who remember that there could have been a better way will all be dead; a lot like UNIX actually ;)

That sounds like some sort of evil plot. For that matter my beard isn't anywhere close to being gray and I know that things could have been better. And if you didn't have +8000 karma I would think you were trolling.

That you're not just makes it worse.
I didn't like how the user types at the top, but is constantly going down to the bottom to press "Run" for the REPL. Maybe that's just watching the video, and with the ipad it's not so annoying?
That's a poor substitute. These tiny arrows are hard enough to hit on their own. Chording doesn't make it better, especially since often you need Shift-PGUP, Shift-Home etc.
Yes. You can't zoom out that way though.
I considered that one also, but its Amazon and Newegg reviews made it clear that despite the fact that the WRT160N is positioned as the successor the WRT54GL, WRT54GL > WRT160N.
Even being noticed by the prosecution, they should not benefit from the mistake. Raising this issue themselves is a nice way to apply the incompetence defense while benefiting from the initial abuse. If they are allowed to prevail, other future seizures may be done using the abusive mandate and later be "corrected".

If that's something that would come up anyway, it's smart to raise the issue themselves before the defense does it.
Absolutely; I hope the judge rules the seizure invalid for exactly that reason.
Good really is light, and Evil really is the dark side.
Despite the sensational title, the article itself makes no mention of "stopping diabetes in its tracks"; merely tracing the emergence of diabetes.
yes but do I want to be leaving digital copy of my fingerprints somewhere, anywhere?

they asked me that on the gym. I said no thank you. In very unlikely situation, what stops them from stealing your computer, obtaining your fingerprint file (given it wasnt encrypted properly) and printing it out and using in a crime, just to frame you for example.
Here you go https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCY...
All the usual emacs keybindings work in all applications, so it's arguably nicer than the ones with extra buttons.
IPhone tethering personal hotspot shows up a as a new network each time
There are no shortcuts, only Zuul?

I approve of this project name. :D
Interesting visualization, but it may be a tiny bit misleading. My first thought was that the larger the horizontal bar, the more time spent in that function, but that's not the case. Rather, it captures the number of times the function was seen in some execution path.

So if you have:

f():
do_less_work()
do_large_work()

f()'s width is inflated even though it's do_large_work() that does most of the work.

The actual execution time of a function is its xwidth less the sum of all its childrens' xwidths.
how about MRI scan. Each brain's pattern is unique. Just invent cheap MRI, put it above your monitor like a web cam, you sitting in front of your computer and viola! you logged in!
Nitpick: "per se".
The Age of the Female-Centric Startup
Have a .com web address? Know the legal risks
I think it's obvious they did it. They needed an interim restraining order but benefited from a foreign restraining order that caught the defendant by surprise. They then raise the issue to imply it was a mistake made in good faith before the defense team can assemble a different story.

In any case, the prosecution should never be allowed to benefit from a process blunder that harms the defendant's ability to defend himself. If it's allowed, all sort of abuses will be committed "in good faith" only to be later "corrected" by such a half-hearted apology.
Thank you - much appreciated.
Can you tell us how the battery life is?
Cops can't do whatever they like to get evidence. But evidence is not thrown out because the police used the wrong warrant or whatnot. Maybe the officer doing wrong would face disciplinary procedures (resulting in loss of pension and job) or maybe they'd face criminal trial.
tl;dr, but I know those are very important. Can someone knowing how to read this, can shorten it out for others?

Thanks.
Ron Minnich of LinuxBIOS and CoreBoot fame has been pointing out for years that (U)EFI is a huge byzantine horror designed to be as proprietary and closed as possible.

For more see this posts:

http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2010-October/0608...

http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2010/06/03/one-week-plus/

Fun fact: Itanium systems were the first to ship with EFI.
Pinterest allows impersonators free range—but for how long?
Cloud computing is entering its teen years
Seems to me like Run deserves to be a gesture.
Well I mostly use cmd or fn + left, right, up, down now and find it a lot more useful, also find myself using cmd+shift and the arrows a lot for selecting to the beginning/end. The thing that took me the longest to get used to is the delete button, I still miss it but I survive by using the aforementioned combinations. I find the overal experience so much more pleasant that I'm willing to put up with it.

Thanks to zimbatm I just found out you can use fn+backspace for delete!
A faith rock, and a faith hard place
I was assuming he'd be taking on counsel on a contingency basis - the fee would have to be very high to account for the risk, but I don't see why that wouldn't be workable.

Also, it would be pretty hard to seize all the assets of someone worth hundreds of millions.
Fn+backspace to delete is a new trick for me! Thanks a million!
Nvidia  GeForce GTX 680 SLI Performance Preview
The various warnings about drivers, touchpad and wifi in these answers is almost amusing if not a little depressing. Remember the promise of the Linux Desktop? I remember giving ubuntu a good try in 2006, but after nightmares with xorg configs, flash, audio drivers and a clipboard that couldn't copy and paste across different applications I eventually switched to mac. It doesn't look like things have changed much in the last five years.
Jungo (http://jungo.com/), a company where I first learned the "proper" development process with code reviews etc, had instituted Vim as the company wide editor. You could choose something else if you still could work reasonably in vim and mastered that "other" editor to a high degree, being able to do x,y,z things with it. There was an actual document describing required level of mastery ;)

Now, vim being one of the top productive environments (only probably be contested by emacs), and the fact that we worked in C, so stags vim plugin provided as much IDE-ness you could get anywhere else at the time (2000), I think that was a very reasonable requirement. Eclipse? nah, not really, you can pry VIM from my dead hands, definitely would not work at this place.
The MacBook Air was for his kids: "if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses)...".

P.S. Out of curiosity, could someone explain me why I'm being downvoted?
Why companies reinvent solutions
Not necessarily a good thing. No cash means no privacy.
So there is a police guy who doesn't know how to do his job meeting a judge who doesn't know how to do his job, and all on a case that gets world wide, front page press coverage. Talk about bad luck.
IFixit's Review of the New iPad's User Repairability.
Liddel-Hart on the Imperfect Information on a Battlefield
On initial reading, I think This order has a very high chance of increasing the cost of doing business and especially burdening startups. As I read it, the government is asserting the authority to deem any industry as a "critical national resource", and then come in and require that your industry adopt the practices that THEY prescribe to HELP you secure your resources against attack.

This seems to be directed initially at power plants and water supplies. But the stated list of industries includes virtually any business in the US.

I am certain that the largest business and monopolists will make a killing in receiving the benefit of subsidies and reduced competition under this order. But it is just one more barrier that new firms have to hurdle to enter a market.
March 16 2012 Executive Order: unlimited power over food, water, property
President Obama signed an Executive Order on Friday that gives the government a disturbingly wide range of powers, including the ability to acquire property, food, water, transportation, and other resources with preference in the name of 'national security'.

I'm all for national defense, but his level of control over national resources in a time of peace is unprecedented.

We need the administration to explain itself. Please sign the petition I created on the White House petition service 'We the People' here:
http://wh.gov/R3C

I urge you to also take a minute to read the White House press release of the executive order itself, which you can find here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

We have one month to get just 25,000 signatures...let's do it!
I'm not a legalese ninja by any stretch, but the way that I read it, it basically codifies the military-industrial complex, including assigning who in the government is responsible for whom in the population as it pertains to constantly and continuously manufacturing means of finding and killing people.
In general, ThinkPads are the way. Business line Dells also are quite well supported.
(This has to do with the user community for those machines. And that community keeps their software running well)

I am as well looking for a Ultrabook, but I decided to wait for the ThinkPad T430s.
Python, with its "batteries included" philosophy is a poor choice because it misses the original intent. With Scheme, you have to invent everything. With Python, you just have to look up the documentation.

For many new programmers, a "batteries included" approach is potentially much better. Once you've learned a little Python, you can read the docs for SimpleHTTPServer and make an online application. I can't imagine how mindblowing that would've been for me as a kid: "you mean I can write this little program and now I have a webserver on the Internet just like Google?"

I get where you're coming from. At some point, any would-be professional programmer needs to write a linked list, a binary tree, and a quicksort; not that she'll actually end up using her implementation, but for the sheer experience of understanding what's going on at that level. But I can certainly see the charms of teaching the abstracted versions first so that higher-level concepts are approachable earlier.
Panasonic Lumix GF5 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked [Cameras]
Hatch Labs CEO Dinesh Moorjani: What Makes Successful Incubator [notes+vid]
As a Swede I am used to always being able to pay with my card; Heading to the bar? No need to withdraw cash. Grabbing a taxi home late at night? No need to worry if you have enough cash, they accept cards.

To add to this is that electronic transfer of money to both businesses and private citizens is quick and easy. If you transfer within the same bank it is instant and takes up to a day, depending on the hour, to transfer between banks.
Nice, what kind of tuning did you do? I hover around 9W, which is already really good...
A link to share for your tweaks, sir?
I have a dell Inspiron N4010(intel cor i3, 4GB ram), with Ubuntu 11.10. Was using Ubuntu on it since 10.10. Works like a charm, just sometimes the wireless(broadcom b43xx) doesn't work, which will work again by just turning off and on. It was shipped with windows at first. But it even works smoother under Ubuntu. Though I don't suggest you to buy Dell. I can see a fan problem with most Dell laptops that I've see and also cheap hardware.
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I've got a 4G phone. When I go out to the bars on the weekend, it NEVER NEVER NEVER makes it until the end of the night. Which, oddly enough, happens to be exactly when I'm most likely to need it to find friends and regroup from the chaos. (Even when I turn off data to try and stretch it out, it'll die..) My phone also gets buggy, and seems to flake out at the exact movement I actually need to text someone. I'm not buying another 4G/android phone again for a long time, I"m switching to a 3G iPhone for my next phone, hands down.
It is just an idea. You are right, the current wifi routers doesn't have capability. However, this is done by the backbone routers at present. If we go back to the 80s, the PCs of that time cannot handle the computing needs of a large website. However, today nearly all datacenters are run using PC hardware. In other words the business of big servers got commoditized in the early 2000s. In the same way, the big network backbone business will be commoditized at some point in time. The restrictions such as this, will only accelerate the commoditization.
Ever since Acer Aspire ultra book came out with nVidia GPU, it's no longer the case.

Optimus is not used on Linux.
It's completely and totally within the rights of an employer to demand and mandate the usage of any tool. It's usually not a problem when there's a small, single-digit number of programmers, but once you reach a certain number, mandating procedures, code-conventions, style, tools, even the machine you work on to guarantee as little difference between developers becomes a necessity.
"This really has very little bearing on the Megaupload case as a whole."

Not exactly true. It would allow Dotcom to have more funds for a proper defense. This sort of stuff shouldn't even happen before you actually get charged as guilty. This is why I never really liked the "OPEN Act" alternative to SOPA either. Sites shouldn't get their funds seized and cut off before they even get a chance to defend themselves.
I couldn't disagree more. The function of a phone involves being carried around everywhere, and size, especially thinness, is crucial here. This is the essential function of a phone, and everything else should follow from that. Throwing in a huge battery doesn't solve the problem, unless the battery can be charged faster.

4G is the fashion right now, but it has ever so little every day function compared to 3G. It's important to spec-sheet fashionistas, but for most people, the 1/8" is much more useful and valuable.
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Generally, it outlines the whitehouse agenda to continue to integrate and coordinate municipalities, state governments, and corporate partners.

The amount of information necessary to carry out large scale coordinated efforts of defense vastly exceed the capabilities of existing protocol.

Obama, a "constitutional lawyer", says right off the bat that he has "the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America" as a way to structure a legal framework for a new foundation of national security operations.

Critics are quick to point out that these seizures of power is completely unconstitutional and any legal arguments are based on some sort of fraud.

Whether this is truly "good" or "bad" ultimately depends on how all of this plays out for the American people in the long term.
Bad luck... or evidence of officials being systematically bad at their jobs.
Almost everything written in the west about China, is biased against them. Don't waste your time reading highly partial and non-informative bullshit like this. Go visit China if you care, or just mind your own business if you don't.
anyone actually using dynamodb in production, or close to production, here?
LEGO master creates ridiculously cool Game Boy Transformer
Getting a new iPhone or iPad? Don't forget to enter your password 7 times
Ultra-efficient LED puts out more power than is pumped in
"If there were no cash, what would they do?" says Ulvaeus, 66.

Well, he's in for a surprise ...
Does anyone else wonder why they need to actually fly the devices instead of just extrapolating from the electromagnetic interference test results required by the FCC?

It feels as if they believe in voodoo rather than physics. Is there a reason they require device specific tests?