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I find it a bit curious to call Harvard's entrance exam[1] a "simple objective test of academic merit". I would call it a glorified spelling bee whose word list was handed out only to the most privileged.

[1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvarde...
I was going to buy the Pro one until they announced the price. Now I'd just a Macbook Air or an Ultrabook instead.
This is exactly what most people mean. I've instead Linux on my Macbook Pro, compared to the support OS X had Ubuntu's was a joke. Same with wifi, it did not just work out of the box for me. And I know it's lightyears ahead of where it use to be, but that doesn't hide the fact that the default OS X experience was just plain better and hassle free.
We're going to stick with 3 months for now, our idea being that we want to keep costs low so the product is pretty affordable to everyone.

We're still debating how the UX for configuration will look, as soon as we figure it out then we can start work on that :)
The structure of Oblivion/FO3 is this: there are hundreds of cookie cutter dungeons strewn through a landscape. Wander the landscape, entering each cookie cutter dungeon and clearing it mechanically.

Also, there is a story on rails. Whee.

Yes, there are hundreds of those cookie cutter dungeons and there are towns to roam, but the same is also true of panning over Google Maps and nobody is saying that is a deep game.
This has always been the case on Reddit. The list of top 10 users ranked by their comment karma is made up of less than 10 actual people.
Use `man calendar` for details on the file format. It's more of an "on this day in history" type list than actual timeline.

The data itself (LOTR dates) first appeared in 4.4BSD (though it was part of the file `calendar.history` [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/2.0.5/usr.bin/calendar... ]), and has since passed to FreeBSD (where the LOTR dates were split off into a separate file [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=11... ]) and subsequently Mac OS X.
Is it too much to hope that the drivers from this effort are not just free, but also open-source?

Other than that, props to Dell for even attempting something like this. The hardware ain't mind-blowing (as others have pointed out), but hopefully this is a step in the right direction.
Where do I file a bug report? The date of "Frodo & Bilbo's birthday" was actually given in the book as September 22nd. In my file it's 09/14.
The fact that this is news is shows why Linux is not a viable alternative to Windows or OSX outside a very narrow market niche.

And if you think I'm wrong, what does this get you if your organization was standardized on Fedora?
No, you misunderstood. My point is that someone else's child porn is going through your computer when you operate a tor exit node - that isn't the case when you just use encryption and transfer it yourself.

Also UPS maintains logs of who sends and receives stuff, so they can easily track down anyone sending child porn or whatever through their service.
[ not that you asked for it here, but I've got some frontpage UI feedback: ]

I think you should put a description up front to describe what Cucumber town is. I think that main image should be a slider with multiple feature images, and I think the Latest Recipes should be the first section after this. Just my 2c!

Screen: http://cl.ly/image/3R2Y131Z433L
But but but.. qz.com is an American company based in NY. Maybe they just hate NASCAR. Who knows?

Now, their attitude doesn't justify yours. We are all equals, or at least that's the theory.
Ask HN: How do you prepare for HN traffic?
There's an article on the front page[1] right now about the horrors of a burst of HN traffic taking down your site. This is a fairly common occurrence. With that in mind, what steps can a person take to mitigate the risk of a visit to the HN page ruining the chance for conversions/signups/visits?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847665
Ah! Thanks for catching that. Fixed it.
Well, we can disagree with each other all we want. Without the actual statistics this means nothing. I could not find the statistics for the US, there is one for Canada though http://www.clbc.ca/files/reports/fitting_in/transition_penal... which seems to support my point of view. But as I said, I'd be happy if somebody corrected me with numbers.
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A cautionary tale: I had good luck with ZoneEdit when they launched. It was/is kind of in the same space as this. Their new UI is okay, but yours looks a bit better. They started out with freemium, but eventually had to re-structure how their premium service worked, and in the process crippled how the free service worked. It got bad enough that I abandoned them.

Be very careful how you structure your premium offerings. People don't like when the free version starts losing features or capacity.
Cucumbertown co-founder here. Actually I dislike this idea though we should have been better prepared.

At my previous firm we had this culture that whenever traffic peaks we spin up new instances. And tools like RightScale & Chef make it ridiculously simple. So our style was to do that than to optimize strains in code paths. Because this is so so convenient.

And before you know it, this notion of hardware is cheap becomes a culture. Soon enough if you grow you’ll be serving 100K users with 250 machines.
"As a result, pundits are already declaring this the beginning of (or an important milestone in) Microsoft’s death spiral."

Really? So much of their business is relying on the Surface RT that it will spell doom for the entire company? Highly unlikely.
If it doesn't work - this is why Linux fails

If the vendor doesn't support it - this is why Linux fails

If it works and the vendor supports it - this is why Linux fails

hmmm...
> The police can then trace that hosting account back to me personally from my IP, and then ask me who sent those coins to me. Even if I refuse to tell them, they can still look at my various contacts/friends/family to see if any of them are likely to have committed the original crime, and investigate further.

Has that ever happened? If there's no way to verify that a transaction was made it would not hold up in court. In the US for stolen property it's possession that's what gets you in trouble. If the cops find you holding a laptop that was stolen the day before it doesn't matter if you paid some guy off Craigslist for it, you're in trouble (at least out your money, but if you can't prove you paid for it you're looking at a felony). What they won't do is investigate everyone in your address book (no probable cause).
During the Arab Spring, several countries blocked the entire Internet.

As the example of Egypt illustrates, this was usually a bad mood for the regime.
Why does everyone seem to ignore today's standards of living for even the poorest classes in America?

All this talk about the top 1% just sounds like envy. Why do we compare ourselves to that?

I live in a neighborhood of a thousand 3000 square foot houses with three car garages. I imagine all the people in them reading that article and shaking their fists with anger at the 1% and realizing they're all failures who will never get ahead.

I just don't get that mentality.
Tell that to the HP Mini 210 that I bought in April 2011.

Synaptic "clickpad" trackpad that claims to support multitouch: Sorry, only with their Windows driver. Not only I don't get multitouch in Ubuntu, but I can't even click or drag/drop anything. Ubuntu 12.04 claimed to fix the issue with clickpads, but it didn't work out of the box, and even after extensive tweaking, some features were still very buggy. In the end, I switched to a laptop that has a traditional trackpad without the multitouch bullshit.

Broadcom wifi card: Works fine once you install the additional driver. But there's a catch: last time I checked, the driver didn't come with the install CD. So I have to download it in order for wifi to work ... but I need wifi in order to download it. Ended up digging out an old ethernet cable from a dusty closet and crawling under another closet to connect it to the modem. Not pleasant!

Of course, most of the problem lies with hardware vendors who don't release fully functional open-source Linux drivers for their gadgets. But since when does the average user care whose fault it is that their trackpad doesn't work? The great thing about this Dell release is that all their drivers are fully functional and freely available as a PPA. Because without those drivers, few of today's latest PC laptops work with Linux out of the box.
Not so fast there - Radon graphics still suck, with both the official as with the open source drivers.

The Lenovo s300 with Intel HD 3000 however works flawlessly out of the box, with HDMI, audio over HDMI, multitouch touchpad, camera, suspend and everything. Just don't touch anything with an ATI card.
I always found the thought, that I can find something more easily on the internet, than in my drawers quite amusing.
While he may feel safe under the CDA, all it takes is one jury in one jurisdiction. There are so many laws on the books in so many states (not to mention the body of common law from court cases), that he should find himself in hot water. Not only civil but criminal. Especially when his stated intentions reflect pretty clear mens rea [1]. Willful blindness would be bad enough but his quotes are far worse.

Ventures that feel the need to state "It's completely legal! my lawyers checked" are usually a bad idea.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
Agreed.

I think one of the biggest benefits of such a fund is that it could employ a lawyer who could look at cases like this to determine who is "worthy" of receiving funds.

I don't want to be that guy, but all I know about this is that a guy claims that the child porn that was found was due to him running an exit node.

I don't want to say the porn was his, but it's possible that the porn was his.

I'd feel better about donating if I knew a lawyer had investigated and found his story to be credible.

Hypothetically, what if it was his porn, and then internet raise 1000's of dollars for him and then have this info come out. I'd imagine most people would be like me and never donate to people like this again. After all who wants to knowingly help someone escape justice when they actually deserve jail time.
come on. you know as well as i do that this is rare.

really, this is the height of technical cowardice. searching out exceptions for what is not only a good cause, but one that is statistically safe.

it happens regularly when tor is mentioned. there seems to be a certain kind of person that takes delight in looking for extreme examples to justify their own lack of moral fibre.
I can, and I can ever test race condition, mentioned by hythloday.

http://youtu.be/jsfEy32n_xI
NASCAR moved to fuel injection this past season.
Last I heard, the firehose is something like 30MB/s of data. Maybe maintaining a pipe like that to a large number of subscribers is just not what Twitter wants to spend its time or money on.
Smartphones make car buying somehow even less appealing
If typos and other accidental errors end up being a problem, you could use a different email for proofing or demos. The proofing email wouldn't count against the 5 invoices, and would include a prominent watermark or something. Just a thought.
This is wonderful feedback. We’ll definetly look into this.
Maybe this will help put some gravity around fixing Skype for Linux. Alternatively, does anyone know of a good video conferencing tool for Linux that also supports Windows as well?
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I believe so. I researched it a bit more. According to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-ling&allowed_i... , which is a better resource than the sites I found earlier, it comes from Old English, meaning " 'person or thing of a specific kind or origin;' in masculine nouns also 'son of' (cf. farthing, atheling, O.E. horing 'adulterer, fornicator')."

It further clarifies: "Both these suffixes had occasional diminutive force, but this was only slightly evident in O.E. -ling and its equivalents in Germanic languages except Norse, where it commonly was used as a diminutive suffix, especially in words designating the young of animals (e.g. gæslingr "gosling"). Thus it is possible that the diminutive use that developed in Middle English is from Old Norse."

It appears then that "-ling" in Old English meant "person or thing of a specific kind or origin", which it shared with other Germanic languages, and grew to acquire the diminutive use after the Old Norse influence on English.
The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation.

I think there's a lot of truth to this. One observation I've made over the years: a number of people I've known who might have made great leaders failed to due to almost overwhelming trust and control issues. Almost to the person I've found that almost all of them came from very troubled childhood homes. Anecdotal, but I wonder if our social inability to address these types of developmental issues short changes us as a society from a great number of potential leaders.
Thanks for chiming in!

A lot of people seems to be asking for #2. I too was thinking Invoice ID will be useful.
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I also recall seeing the date of the destruction of the ring given as 3/25, not 3/18.
I'm not sure the part you like most is counter to Beck's incremental degradation process. Presumably you'd want to have a general idea of where you're going before you start tearing things down.

Take his single-server, multi-server example: The problem you are presented with is that you have too little capacity (I'll assume). The multi-server architecture is one way to solve that. The decision to start tearing down the monolithic server so that you can distribute the workload may not be "Big Design Up-Front", but there is at least a little design up-front.

Think of the "driving a car a night" metaphor for agile: You may not be able to see beyond your headlights (and hence may not know the exact route you'll take along the way), but you need to know if you're driving to New York or California.
I will need to wait for his local news to confirm the story before I will donate. I trust him, but you can't just say I need all of your money without proof, that's like a certain Nigerian prince.

I really hope this is fake because its really sad to see people like William get caught in the middle of a situation like this. However, with my gut feeling this is real, I will be waiting for confirmation to submit my donation.
Yep, that's what I thought. And it is advertised as "developer edition"...
Hackers wanted for early-stage big data YC startup
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We are building an analysis engine in the cloud that is fast,
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We are looking for:

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If this sounds exciting, drop us a note at bigdatayc@gmail.com with a resume, profile, or background info. We will get back to you, and tell you more about us.
I always hear this comment yet I can still not get wifi to work on an early 2000's HP laptop with ubuntu. I pretty much just gave up this point
I have never seen this. Thanks as well.
There's none now. But since a lot are requesting for it, I'll have to give in and add it soon :)

Thanks for the feedback.
The UK seems to be terrible for getting Linux pre-installed. I've noticed a few major OEMs release Linux laptops elsewhere, but never bring them to the UK. There's nothing like System76, while smaller countries like the Netherlands seem to have companies something like that.

Do our laws let Microsoft get anti-competitive exclusivity deals? Or are we Brits so establishment-loving that the market isn't there?
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I think that's a good suggestion, with the launch of the page I was really hoping to just get a more comprehensive list, and get to some level of generally acceptable categorization.

The most immediate need/request seems to be a way of sorting the most recently added items in some way: when it was launched yesterday it had 162 items, now it's at 186.

Thanks for the suggestion, glad you like the site, if you think of anything else please email me at mike@bootstraphero.com.
When I think about depth, I think about things like: finding people to talk to. Side quests. Fleshing out cities and industries. I think about a deep world -- something SNES games almost never gave.

I think about exploration and emergant gameplay, something SNES games almost never gave.

I suppose if your definition of depth is purely story based and can be fulfilled through a linear, one-story-fits-all game, then those SNES games can be deep.
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I think my narrative would be:

"Some people will have it much, much easier than you and some people will have it much, much harder. That is irrelevant to how well you do, so have at it."
There are plenty of legitimate uses for Tor.
OK, BUT bear in mind that UNTIL such a complicated new kind of relationship between two persons is set up, whenever some interaction looks like a purchase-sale agreement, IT IS SO. Even more if you read "BUY" this ebook everywhere.
Hard work is a (mostly) necessary but insufficient condition for becoming successful.

The main problem here is that much of US society believes it is a necessary and sufficient condition - i.e., they've perverted "you need to work hard to get rich" to "if you work hard you will get rich", or the more pernicious format: "if you're not rich you didn't work hard".

The last form of this thought is one of the most persistently toxic concepts of modern US society.
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If Microsoft is netting $200 per unit, this represents only $400,000,000 of some net revenue projection (assuming the report is correct). Yes, it's more than a rounding error. But it's not going to have much impact on the bottom line.

Deathspiral?

Microsoft isn't betting the farm on becoming a hardware company.
I guess it all depends on what your definition of the American Dream is. It's all relative.

Definition 1 - In America, it doesn't matter who you are, you can be successful. You could run your own business or attain a high-level political office (to name a few).

Definition 2 - In America, if you work hard, you will always attain a high level of success. You will never be treated unfairly or have to obstacles you need to overcome in order to succeed.

I think if you ask most immigrants who came to the US from countries with authoritarian regimes, they'll agree the "American Dream" still exists. Of course their perspective is quite different. In their home country no matter how hard they worked they could never be successful because they were the wrong race, member of the wrong political party, didn't have connections to the right people, didn't go to the right schools, etc.

I don't think any reasonable definition of the "American Dream" demands that America is perfect. It's just an observation that America is very unique in the world in the opportunities it offers people from all backgrounds. Heck, I've spoke to European friends who feel that the US offers more opportunities for everyone than their home country does.
Well, this all sounds sufficiently horrifying and terrible.
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I think about the thousands of "books" and scrolls and story to experience, hours of voiced dialogue and just reams of unvoiced dialogue...

And I compare it to the "Hello Traveler! (Push X to Continue)" diaglouge that 98% of NPC's in SNES games provide, and I'm just shocked that people think those old games had depth.

They spent years writing the surrounding material for Oblivion.

Just because you steam rolled the main story and chose not to explore, to read and experience that world doesn't mean there wasn't depth.

The difference is, in those old SNES games -- there is no depth to experience outside of the linear story. It's the story...and that's it.
Dustforce dev here (http://dustforce.com). Our game cost around $100k to make. It was basically just living expenses for 4 people for 1.5 years.
You don't find yourself in litigation for the legitimate uses of Tor.
> So you think it's fine to allow someone to use your computer to transfer child porn and other illegal stuff with no consequences?

Are loaded questions like these really necessary? As opposed to your misinformed comment below, ISPs are generally not required to keep logs in many jurisdictions and even if they are and fail to do so, they aren't made responsible for the crime that was committed over their infrastructure. The same standards should apply to Tor operators.

> While tor might have some legitimate uses, I think 99% of the time it's used for trolling or illegal stuff.

This number is pulled out of thin air.

> It's a pain in the ass for me because I have to keep reblocking it when the ips change.

Exit node IPs are documented on a public list for exactly that reason.
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Without knowing and understanding Austrian law you can't make such speculations. In the USA he wouldn't be breaking any laws.
Jacob Applebaum: "The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and The War on Some Drugs." - Cypherpunks, p43. O/R Books. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/

The book (and The World Tomorrow interviews at http://assange.rt.com/ from whence it spawned) go on to explain why these arguments are extremely bad for the internet. We have to protect the freedom of speech for everyone, or there is no freedom of speech.
Yep. Fulfillment of a childhood dream, that. I'm just sad Ward didn't get his picture in there too. He doesn't get his (large) share of the credit.
They have to be building in a couple hundred dollars for especially driver support because I can't see how this is $1500 without the OS license costs. I think I would still rather go with a MacBook Air.
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