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I was excited when I heard about this initial project, and was holding out for the official release specs. The display is a big disappointment, and show stopper for me.

I do agree this is a great first step and partnership for hardware manufacturers, specifically for device drivers.

I really do hope this is successful enough that Dell sustains the product line and continues to iterate on improving it over the next couple years. I would love a Mac Airbook alternative ultrabook for development.

Additionally, let's hope this spurs some competition in the market for other manufacturers. I've done ZERO market analysis, but it seems like quite a niche market that is rip for the picking (*NIX DEV Ulatrabook), and has the potential for decent profits w/ the right hardware specs and pricing.

Kudos to Dell for taking the imitative in the right direction. Let's see how it pans out.

> Edit spur competition
The Windows version of the same laptop is $50 less. Uh, what?

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd

[2] http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx
It is not actually very clear how much difference a student's school makes. Going to a private school on its own does not help with university admissions (if anything, it makes it more difficult). The superior quality of private education might improve the grades of lesser able but richer students, but there is still the ever present problem of accurately separating the effect of school type to educational achievement from the effects of family background/expectations/genetic inheritance...
I'm a bit scared of changing my typing style now...

I started programming at 8 years old, doing the two-finger method, which eventually evolved into a modified 3-finger left, 2-finger right, with pinkies for modifier keys. I took a typing course in high school and did well, but I went right back to my old style afterwards. I've now been doing this for 30 years. My typing isn't super fast (maybe 70wpm), but I've also never had any wrist pain, regardless of the keyboard or sitting style I've used. My primitive typing style never allows for contortion moves, and I'm worried that if I do move to a more proper style, I'll end up with the wrist pain that everyone talks about...
That's Microsoft you're talking about...

Linux is like Europe. Kissenger can't call it on the phone. The laptop isn't a win for Linux. It's a win for Ubuntu. It doesn't do squat for any other distro.

Linux has success. It can continue to be successful on its own terms. But it will never be successful in the same way as Windows. Just as Windows will never be successful in the same way as the Mac ecosystem, and the Mac ecosystem will never be successful in the same way as Linux.

Long live the Commodore Amiga.
Depends on your location and your definition of "legitimate". If you define "legitimate" by what your particular government says is OK, then no, you won't find yourself in court for those uses. Unless you get extradited to a government that has different opinions.
When Apple makes a white and slightly rounded version of something that others made years ago, it actually turns out that they are inventing it for the first time.

It doesn't exist until Apple makes it.
Dude when I install Fedora it comes with less power management options because of the _WINDOW MANAGER_!!!

I love Linux, but if you can't admit to how fucked up certain basic concepts are you are living in a TTY.
maybe they bought samsung printers and this is their fix
pre-orders open once a game is done and way past the beta stage.

Pricing plans, gold editions/collectors editions etc are all planned for much later in the cycle - all revenue comes post/near game launch.

That is what I was aiming at, perhaps it wasn't clear in my original post, I plead sleep dep.
Whatever happens, the pushback by policy makers will likely result in overbearing regulations that affect all Internet users.
Yesterday I was thinking of building analytics using Redis and today I see this. But unfortunately the article is over my head and I am using PHP. Do you have any links you can give me?

BTW: The link does not load for me when using https
Reading about a person like Hunter Moore is one of the rare times I'm very glad that Anonymous and their extra-judicial brand of justice exists.

Cue The Dark Knight "hero we deserve" quote.
Some condos have a common space that can be reserved for events. Instead of charging when you use it, they charge everyone a little bit through condo fees and then have it available by reservation.
Do you feel the same way about someone operating an open wifi access point? To me the active distributor is quite a bit worse than someone operating an open wifi connection or a Tor exit node.
Here's the thing: On most laptops, most things will work "OK enough" under Linux. But there always seems to be some kind of small issue. And even when it works, it often stops working after an upgrade. Like my Toshiba that worked well until an upgrade suddenly made it unable to boot into X, or my ThinkPad that had the annoying fan running all the time for no apparent reason.

That's the problem. It means that if you're a linux expert and can spend some time fixing things each time they break, Linux on Laptops is great. And you're in a better position to fix things when they do, since you can modify the source.
What are the best blogs/pages to watch for internet network news like this?
Had the same spinning circle in Chrome. Tried Safari and it worked.
MacBook Air is only like $100 for the same specs.
Someone mentioned Steam/Linux and if some vendor has decided to become an early mover into that market:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/system76-unviel-17-extrem...

And FWIW, I've had major problems with wifi and integrated graphics display as recently as Ubuntu 12.04! Virtual Linux on Win 7 works fine though. And I've been with Linux since Slackware 1.0/RHEL 5 (and several distros later....), still not given up on Linux.... continue to be hopeful....

I must be mad! (/joking to myself there)
Why would they answer the phone in English without knowing that you were a foreigner?
If you go to a bank, rob it, and then walk outside to a waiting taxi, and have the taxi drive you home, is the taxi driver an accessory? I think that in the US you'd really have to make a case that the taxi drive had knowledge of what had transpired.
Fun fact: People care more about hurting paedophiles than they do about protecting children. It's why communities rally around protesting against sex offender treatment centres or cheer about prison rape like more sexual abuse somehow won't make offenders more deviant.
Everyone wants to dance around the subject, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. True anonymity makes the criminalization of the transfer of child pornography unenforceable.

Making bad laws unenforceable is the point of anonymity. But you've got to take the end of good laws along with the bad.
It isn't about rounded corners.

It's about polished implementations that don't suck running on solid hardware.
The wonders of modern developed-world life do not encourage me to work at such "opportunities"; if anything quite the opposite. I can sit in a safe corporate job and still live a life that would have been beyond the dreams of even royalty a few generations ago. Sure there's room for improvement, but not enough to be worth spending a lot of effort on.
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I'm going to throw myself out there on this one... but what's wrong with Skype on Linux? I rarely use it (so maybe that's why I'm not understanding), but I've done interviews for multiple podcasts on two different laptops (both with 12.04) and I've never had a problem.
What you think can be done is irrelevant by itself; you have to explain or suggest _how_ it can be done.
A good thing for shareholders if they stop wasting money failing in the mobile market.
He was saying they photocopied Apple's distribution strategy not their devices.

It's amazing to me how many companies fall for a strategy that works for Apple, and think that it could easily work for them, too. Apple has so many advantages that makes stuff like this work, that it would be almost impossible for anyone else to get it working without those advantages.

"If only we would get carrier exclusivity, too"

"If only we had our own custom proprietary OS, too"

"If only we created our own proprietary docks and connectors"

"If only we had our own specialized stores"

And many other such things. They copy all these things, thinking that it will work for them just like it did for Apple, without realizing that those work only for Apple, because they are Apple.
> Display: 13.3" HD 720p

Erm, gotta go, bye.
But you're applying the data point of "I didn't have any problems" as your generalisation, I can say from having installed Linux on a weird amount of laptops recently that occasionally things like the trackpads will not have full features, occasionally webcams will fail to be found and/or not work properly and so on. But the thing is, that's just my experience with one specific distro (Ubuntu 11.04) out of the box, and shouldn't be taken for a whole.
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Cooking often requires hacking. Engineers love to cook. Also, startups often look for cheap/simple food to sustain them.

Cooking/food articles consistently do well here.
Just an FYI, the link to the windows installer on the modal that launches immediately after you sign-up is dead (http://www.graphdat.com/agent/GraphdatAgent.exe)

Note, I'm only half done with my coffee so...you never know.

Update: I just came back to the site and launched the model seems like the link is now http://windows.graphdat.com/agent/GraphdatAgent.exe which works...
It's both of those things, but I don't understand why there needs to be a post on HN about it. Stuff like this has existed for a very long time, just not in such an explicit, brazen form.
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Yes, greed is deeply embedded. But it rests on a bedrock of stupidity and incompetence. And even the dullest of greedy bastiges can figure out that if Money = Good, then pissing off the people who have it, and who, until you pissed them off, wanted to give you some, = Bad.

No argument at all on the superiority of Vulcans (or whales, for that matter) to humans.
Seconded. Initially, my brain told me that +ve was the name of the site, so I was confused when I looked for a product page link only saw "Cucumbertown".

Granted, that's mostly laziness -- apparently I've got a rule that matches "strange words near the top of the post" to "probably the name of the product".
> A Single data point does not a result make.

Just like how installing Fedora on a laptop 8 years ago and having everything work doesn't mean that there aren't some things that are perpetually broken on Linux distros.
I like how you say "logically equivalent" as if that magically makes it a rational position.
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I'm not disputing your point, but as a long-time application developer (and of course general computer user), I had to look up what the difference was. I've never had the need to switch between them (that I'm aware of). In what circumstances does it become important?
I'm not sure how they plan to compete with Macs? The price is definitely not competitive. I care about computing experience. When it comes down to it, I haven't found a better *nix workstation than my Macbook Pro.

I love Ubuntu. I use it for all of my server deployments. I'd love an Ubuntu laptop that works well. But, it has to work better than my Macbook Pro for me to consider switching.
if someone do that properly i guess they will be rich.
this is rather unrelated, but just now I was reading another chromebook released by Acer on The Verge, and I was left wondering, why does it seems like the vendor adoption of the rather new and unproven Chrome OS seems to be much higher than that of Linux desktop that has been around for the same time (if not longer) as Windows...
Einstein's brain: Even on the surface, extraordinary.
When they piss off their OEMs with a little surprise, like the Surface was, there's more at stake than just whether that particular hardware succeeds.
This has certainly upped the competition for newletters services like mailchimp, campaign monitor, aweber, etc. The price is going to sink them.
The Software Freedom Law Center has stated that in their legal opinion it is legal, however this does not mean that you won't get raided or harassed by law enforcement, it simply means you probably won't go to jail.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/system76-unviel-17-extrem...

You mean this is not available in the UK? (Genuine question.)

So why is omg ubuntu covering it? (genuine Q)
Here is a question (sorry to try and hijack this thread): this is a great laptop, but while we're at it, have people had good experiences with other ultrabooks?

My experience has been that things like EFI have made it impossible to boot linux on recent macbooks (I have tried!), and many ultrabook hardware just doesn't work on linux. Graphics won't show up, the thing won't boot, SATA hard drives not found, etc.

Many of the websites I used to rely on (eg, linux-laptop.net) have very out of date information. Ubuntu has a list of certified machines (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/) but still, it doesn't tell me much about ultrabooks released in the past year.

Are there any new resources I'm missing? Or personal experiences people can share?

As for myself, I'm successfully running Mint on a Toshiba Portege ultrabook. But that is the flimsiest computer I've ever used!
Yes, but you can't say it doesn't work because it didn't work _for me_. I have found people are really quick to blame Linux when things aren't working on their Linux laptop , but they blame everything else before they blame windows when it happens on a windows based system. Thats why you should always check the consensus of the community* most of the time they can point you in the right direction

*I would just like to point out that in addition to having just a good if not better hardware support across the board , Linux really excels with its community and availability of online resources to fix most problems. I know some people don't like the idea that they might need to go look for solution and just want things to work , and I understand that, but I like knowing if I need it there is help out there I can leverage. Things will break no matter what OS your running and someone will need to fix it.
Which also seems to have very good hardware support: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2
You do realize that anonymous and their 4chan originators have been doing this kind of thing for years, right?

Off the top of my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jessi-slaughter

I wouldn't expect much backlash from anonymous on this one.
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They implemented map and reduce in separate js files and used bit.ly to store the intermediate results.

Link to original paper: http://adl.csie.ncu.edu.tw/~jhhe/doc/bmr.pdf
Hey

Name: Eventhread

Idea: an event discovery platform which aggregates event information from major ticketing websites and give users personalised event recommendations based on their interests.

Landing page link: http://join.eventhread.com

Opinions on the landing page and value proposition would be highly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Tadas - Co-founder of Eventhread
at least cut the price.

I don't get why companies are keen to dump hundreds of millions in development, but don't want to cut price on something because they'll "lose money" on the product.

There's probably more accounting issues and 'predatory pricing' arguments and such that could be made, but at the end of the day, they've already spent the money on all the development of the mobile/surface/phone stuff. If more people aren't using it enough to be a serious long-term player, they've "lost" the money already. "Losing" a bit more by selling the hardware at cost or below cost to establish an installed base doesn't seem wrong. Don't console manufacturers do that, and it's accepted in that market?
"Posters for your walls & money for Wikipedia" & "Buy poster and support wikipedia" seems to strongly imply that the money is directly supporting Wikipedia. Sure he posts the figures but in an overly confusing manner and as part of the small print. If he's going to be pushing the fact that your money is supporting Wikipedia then he needs to be very clear about the cut he is getting. At no point does he directly state he is getting a cut, or how much - he leaves it up to the purchaser to work out.
Don't overlook the Google-related footnote at the end:

"Google keeps logs of IP addresses for 18 months, after which they keep logs of three-quarters of the IP address. Three-quarters of an IP address may be still enough to breach your pseudonymity in the case of an FBI investigation."

Contrast this with the explanation from Google's own Privacy FAQ[1]:

"We strike a reasonable balance between the competing pressures we face, such as the privacy of our users, the security of our systems and the need for innovation. We believe anonymizing IP addresses after 9 months and cookies in our search engine logs after 18 months strikes the right balance."

I'm quite surprised to learn that Google equates "anonymizing IP addresses" with "chopping off an octet". I suppose I'm a bit naive.

[1] http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/faq/
Debate.

You can install any number of window managers on Fedora. You can even do it at install time using Anaconda.
I dont know about anyone else, but when I saw "+ve", I just thought to myself, "what is that?" for about a half a second before giving up and moving on.
I know I'm not struggling and I know that other people are. I was just trying to demonstrate how silly it can look when people complain. No matter how much people have they're always comparing themselves against these impossible outcomes. I don't see how others having more in any way diminishes what you have.

Also, why can't owning a hot dog stand that pays the bills and puts your kids through college be considered the American Dream? When did that turn into yachts and trips to the International Space Station?
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Dell has a bunch of engineers working on Linux support for this notebook, they have to pay them somehow. I don't mind paying an extra $50. The big problem is that the Linux version will probably never go on sale, yet the Windows version will be on sale more often then not so there will be a lot more than a $50 delta. I hope I'm wrong.
Well, there are rumors about the price, but nothing has been announced yet.
Not to be a profit-motivated-douchebag here...but what's the point of this exactly? I mean, what value does adding addresses serve to the bottom line? The site will already draw traffic because: it's porn. There's already, I think in EVERYONE's opinion, sufficient schadenfreude from strangers' private photos being posted online.

And so what does adding addresses do? OK, it gives the submitter more of a feeling of power. For the average gawker...how many of them are going to get significant value from knowing the address? And OK, inevitably, there will be a few users who get "value" from the address, and these users will cause significant blowback towards your already over-the-top site. The only logical reason I can think of going this legally questionable (nevermind unethical) route is that he's afraid he's not getting enough attention as it is.

This seems more like a pathological desire for chaos and misery than any actual entrepreneurship.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=bsdmainutil...
wow. just looking now; that's really impressive.
I'm happily using a laptop at 1280x800, and though I miss the big monitor I used when I had my big beast of a machine set up, I can't say I feel constrained; I just use fewer screen splits in Emacs. Still, for $1500, I'd expect better.
Anonymous, now's the time for you guys to attack Syrian government properties online.
FWIW, I use an ASUS Zenbook (quite a popular ultrabook) to run Ubuntu and it works fine.

EDIT: But I did have to fiddle a little to get the clickpad working properly
You know, I'm a developer and not a business type, so when I see a headline like this, my immediate first thought is "isn't email a solved problem? Aren't there already a ton of providers for this type of service?"

So imagine my surprise that someone is raising millions of dollars to have another whack at it.

It's always good to be reminded that solving big, new problems isn't necessarily more important to people than solving small, existing problems better.
I think if you change it to "If you work hard you will get richER" I would say it holds true 99% of the time.
Except, having used a bunch of Win8 touchscreen machines (desktops, laptops, and convertible/tablet formats) at local tech shops, the Surface RT still blows all of them out of the water in terms of "usual tasks" (emailing, surfing, facebooking, tweeting, etc).

If I were MS, I wouldn't be relying on OEMs to do anything except continue to suck.
Is there a way to run simulated traffic to determine how your server will react based upon heavier load to try and determine how many people it can serve?
I wanted to chime in here to backup `flyingyeti's` point. If you slap a giant watermark on it (doesn't count as a hit against the free 5), then it encourages experimentation and interaction with the platform. I'd think you'd want this, as your users will likely discover errors, problems, and output that doesn't meet their expectations.
It's a bit different for software developers; we can easily and rightfully claim that we need to be able to control our machines.

For accountants, insurance adjusters, secretaries, lawyers, it may not be so simple.
michaelmior is completely right.

You don't need xss on login page. You can have xss on any page and open an iframe/window with login and then steal via same origin
Microsoft made a very large bet on Windows 8 for tablets, making trade-offs against traditional desktop users. You need to also take into account how Windows 8 impacts Microsoft's $20,000,000,000 in Windows revenue.

I wouldn't call this a death spiral either, but what you're seeing is a large bet not paying out as expected.
Is it too much to ask to go to dell.com and see pictures of their products?

Steps I've taken, and since given up:

1. Type in dell.com
2. Decide that I am looking for "For Home > Ultrabooks"
3. Scroll long page of laptops
4. Decide to narrow page down to 12-15 inch screens
5. Find XPS-13
6. Get taken to a configuration page
7. Sees no "view pictures of computer" button/link

The pics on ars makes the machine look good, the bottom kinda reminds of of the nexus 7's profile
With a long term and rather singular/focused goal measured in years, not quarters, these probably would work for some other company. But, these elements are really the byproduct of the long-term goals, vs the goals themselves.

I don't see many companies willing to invest in a long-term and multi-pronged strategy. With most companies, one down quarter or bad gartner report and they'll revise next year's activities and products.