skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice and consistent icon set for your apps, most are public domain
Icon sets made by one user, most of them are public domain so it is easy to use them in your apps or web pages.
Because I want to help people with my source code, whether that be them getting free software to use for some task or commercial activity, or by learning and building on what I've made.
So open source is the digital age's version of promotional gifts for your (personal) brand?
And then relocate the tower, then have the article deleted on the basis that the tower doesn't exist.
Well, once people actually upgrade their PHP installations, that is. ;)

Good work regardless, though!
I have a System76 laptop. I agree with DSR on all points. Turnaround is not as fast as, say, HP.

They have a range of 4 basic laptops, each of which is configurable. I was more concerned with power than weight so I got the second most powerful one.

I almost always have it plugged in when using it. I have used it on battery two or three times, and it seemed the battery was used up rather quickly. I have not spent any time looking into that yet, you might want to check what people say about the battery. I might just need to enable power saving mode or something.

I have been happy with it, it works well for me.
Not to be "that guy", but you mean "loaner" as in "something on loan", rather than "loner", which is "someone that prefers to be alone."

Having just come back from a conference where I was humbled by the other delegates' ability to speak English, I was hesitating to offer corrections. However, I was told in no uncertain terms that they wanted to improve, so provided it didn't interrupt flow, I offered corrections. I hope you feel the same. I'm also happy to delete this comment once I know you've seen it, thus helping flow.
California Court Bans Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving
These might provide consistency, but judging from the "Top 10 Download" area, they're anything but nice.
Yeah, um, you know how people say communism is a fine system, is just that people let it down, and there for it is thoroughly discredited? National security and official secrets are kinda like that.

Sure, in an ideal world, where we trust government and its institutions, I couldn't agree more. Problem is that, for many, its no longer the case. We have seen it abused to protect mere individuals or money, when it is supposed to protect the state from attack.

The other problem is that most states now equate business and commerce to state and security. What they certainly don't do any more, if they ever did, is equate the citizens to state.... until you vote. The scope is out of hand.

Imagine if the state valued our individual rights and privacy as much as it values the rights and privacy of the itself?
My hyperinflation vacation
Better stats than time using Linux perf utility. Looks like if you can exclude Java's startup time they are all pretty much very competitive. Clang SVN wins and Go 1.1 native build beats gccgo-4.8. Hmm.

* java version "1.7.0_17" - 485,284,671 cycles, 0.133074106 (0.0577s excl. startup) seconds time elapsed, 3.64% of all branches missed

* clang svn -O2 - 49,227,286 cycles, 0.029045632 seconds time elapsed, 6.70% of all branches missed

* gcc-4.8 -O2 -flto - 56,989,391 cycles, 0.029750578 seconds time elapsed, 6.48% of all branches missed

* gccgo-4.8 -O2 -flto - 114,583,934 cycles, 0.061428897 seconds time elapsed, 2.96% of all branches missed

* Go 1.1 Beta - 109,278,081 cycles, 0.048572937 seconds time elapsed, 2.62% of all branches missed
Picture this: you're using an app on your phone - doesn't matter what it runs; most probably it's one of the big two smartphone options, or a "dumbphone"; even if it's one of the niche players, odds are good the following scenario plays out: the app you're using fails. It's annoying, it may even be a showstopper. Maybe you can find another one that does the same thing, maybe better, maybe not. The point is, even though you have the illusion of choice, you aren't truly free to try and fix it yourself, not to mention you may never be able to get your information out of it.

This alone should be enough motivation to not just use, but contribute to open source. It empowers the users, and let's face it, we're all users these days. Beyond that, there is also the factor of giving back, or making a mark, making something of lasting worth. Sure, proprietary software is worth something - until you can't use it anymore because you don't have the source, and it either won't run on your platform, or has issues that make it unusable.

I myself am not a big open source developer - I mainly find bugs in products I use and contribute patches back (I'm a pretty good fixer ;). The difference between open and closed source? I can make a change to the software I use.
Also check out Nature of Code[1]. You could read it online.

[1]:http://natureofcode.com/book/
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A photoshop design can always be coded into pixel-perfect HTML/CSS. Whether you know how is a different question though.
Is it worth it to launch a digital publication that targets men?
I don't know anything about the secrets involved but it is generally the case with these things that once the horse has left the barn, closing the barn door isn't very effective.

Steps taken after the fact have a lot more to do a desire on the part of the people who failed to keep secrets secure to be seen as doing something, to punish, or to escape embarrassment.
Impossibly Lean Access Control with Postgres + Flask
Expected value matters. If the cost of being right vs wrong is heavily skewed, a slight (or in your words, 'weak') change in evidence supporting a conclusion may have a huge impact on the expected value of the outcome.

Think of it like a gun that has a 99% chance of being a harmless toy. If it only has a 1% chance of being a real gun, does that mean that it is okay to play with it like a toy?
I just bought and re-flashed an ASUS RT-N16 with TomatoUSB (Shibby fork) last week and it is a great router. For me it has great stability and range. I had previously used Tomato on an older router and liked it so I stuck with it. You can use the ASUS recovery mode software to directly flash with custom firmware images. My understanding is that because it has this special recovery mode it is virtually un-brickable.
They look interesting, but the FAQ page[1] reads like a third-party Chinese vendor is selling them:
"Epiphany has incredible electric powered sunglasses."

1. http://www.epiphanyeyewear.com/?faq
Getting author ownership right in a collaborative editor
Isn't too much open-source also a bad thing? I think we are doing ourselves a disservice by creating open source software that automates the job of the programmer. It eliminates a lot of programming jobs. Many programmers learn to be "modifiers" instead of creators and so they never really learn...
And besides, look at other professions. Is the plumber, the carpenter, the doctor, the lawyer giving you some service for free? There is a one way relationship going on here. Of course, it's easier for us to give stuff away because code, like data, can be copied easily. It's not the same kind of service but it's still something to think about.
Many of the DSL routers can be put in bridge mode. I run an Asus RT-N16 as my router connected up to the "modem" (now in bridge mode) provided by my DSL provider.
This is an amazing example of what can be accomplished in HTML5.
Not enough. If something can predictably end in disaster and horrible things and someone does it anyway, that person is just as evil as if they had planned it from the beginning.

If someone throws rocks at oncoming cars, you can't claim innocence because "I didn't mean to kill a family in a car crash!" If you invade an oil-rich Middle Eastern country and cause half a million excess deaths, it's just as bad as if you personally murdered each and every one of them.
I disagree simply because I feel the obligation for a completely transparent government outweighs the need to wage war. How selfish must one be to insist we wage these conflicts where the deaths of many are a certainty.
That's the question, isn't it? See also the France vs. Twitter scuffle[1]

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/twitter-sued-50-m...
"Who says online users are a bunch of anti-social geeks?"
The problem here is also that Dell randomly switches parts around on these things without changing the model name. If even their own support people can't keep it all straight, how are customers supposed to be able to? Apple gets away with it because they refresh the whole line at certain intervals, so "late 2010 macbook air" really means something, and also they point out stuff you should care about (e.g. Retina displays, but not e.g. CPU upgrades).
Game consoles these days don't really need _any_ disc drive anymore.
As long as you have at least a 6k or 10k connection you can get anything via steam, from indie devs (and... Origin) and so on in no time.
I've been gaming for a long time and I didn't use my DVD drive for 3 years now.
If you are into programmer art, you might like my desktop picture gallery.

There are Buddhabrots, fractal flames, recursive 3d structures made with Structure Synth and POV-ray. Most pictures are 2560x1600.

http://www.timestretch.com/page/gallery
Filing is great but file an archival DVD and save a lot of effort. Or five of them, really, just in case.
Anecdote: Nobody I know uses it. I never hear it talked about at nearby tables.
I have a Mikrotik/RouterOS device.

Positives: Cheap. Powerful. Stable.

Negatives: Harder to use than OpenWRT/DD-WRT or similar. It is still a web-interface, but doesn't "baby" the user. If you aren't comfortable manually setting up interfaces and then setting up tunnels through those interfaces for example then skip this.

I love it. But I won't kid myself, it isn't for everyone. The documentation isn't comprehensive and the software is very powerful but not very intuitive (or at least it isn't if you don't have a good background configuring network equipment).
And also be sure to be "that guy" who insists that every single request be made into a ticket, instead of handling simple walk-ups informally.
Well, I'm not really advancing an opinion as to whether the article is a problem or not. But looked at it, it is a fairly mundane description of a radio station right in the heart of France. I struggle to see how any interpretation of the content could be a direct threat to soldier or civilian lives... so your rhetoric there doesn't sit comfortably.

I for one think that the following, "ends justifies the means", approach is not acceptable; "Trust us, we're the government and though it looks innocuous it is threatening lives right now. So we will take any measures to remove it". If it is that much of a risk I feel they should be able to convince someone of that fact without divulging the exact problem.

Through all of this the intelligence agency have apparently failed to communicate this sort of urgency, in private, to either a trained lawyer or the sysop in question. Indeed, the legal team quite clearly suggest they made no effort to convince them of such an urgency.

In either case, had they done so, then both would have been able to explain how to quietly remove the article without this sort of Streisand effect...

All of which still does not excuse the fact that they threatened a private citizen with terrorism charges.

> I sadly would trust the gov't on this decision than an individual.

I feel that what is often forgotten about govt. is that they are made up of individuals. What you are actually arguing here is that of the several individuals involved, some of them presumably have more information (i.e. secret govt. information) than the others.
I've got a circa-2009 Latitude E6400 that is still alive and kicking (save for the battery, but it lasted a solid ~3 years before it gave out).

I was really impressed and convinced that Dell had stepped their game up for good, but it seems like they've let things slip again.
Wow, the tone of this article is way off. Potentially decent point about online revenue obscured by a massive superiority complex.
> BTW, were you using either the Internet or the web before the early 90's?

You mean "the 80's" then. No I was working on mainframes. Much more fun.

> When have you used the Internet without using the web?

Many many times. Usenet, FTP, telnet, bulletin boards etc.

> Are you this hard to communicate with in real life?

Given that my day job is being a System Engineer for a search company, one has to be pedantic to a certain degree - but you appear to be leveling a claim of my being difficult to communicate with due to a minor error on your part that was corrected by someone that can differentiate between the two. But to answer your question: No, I can be far far worse, if necessary :p
I too am into programmatic art. http://fleen.org

Are those wallpapers "live wallpapers"?
“At the end of the day YOU have to be the one to make your own destiny. If we want Kodable to be used in every elementary school in the country, YC isn’t going to do that. We are.”

...so get to it. The past 3 seasons you spent trying to get into Y Combinator you could have spent building a base of customers.
But ehy, every Dell pc has a service tag which identifies every pc (with that tag they even know the name of the owner) so they are supposed to know every part of the pc
>drove away a huge portion of their users

We have any actual data or even reasonable estimates about just what proportion they drove away?
A Service That I would Definitely Pay For
No, those are jet engines.
No they are they engines!
The 11-inch with 1.7GHz i5 with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD goes for $1,399.

The 13-inch with 1.8GHz i5 and the same RAM/SSD goes for $1,499.

Yes, there are cheaper laptops out there. I'm happy with the fit&finish, the operating system and the support I've gotten from Apple, both online and in the store.
I'm using Photoshop CS6 and I haven't had any of the problems you describe. "Save for Web" supports 8-bit PNGs. Exporting layers with a sequence of 4 commands isn't a burden. My Mac Mini loads up 100MB+ files all the time with no problem. I enjoy working with each pixel so I can make it pixel-perfect.
I clicked on a Google Search ad and bought something less than 2 hours ago. Am I part of the Ignorant?
> Besides pure memory, there are other types of resources as well, which are deterministically destroyed/closed/freed (automatically, in C++ RAII usage).

In reference counting languages, the destroy method, callback, whatever it is named, takes care of this.

In GC languages, there is usually scope, defer, try, with, using, or whatever it might be called.

> Also, in C/C++ your performance critical loop/execution is not interrupted by harvesting GC passing nearby.

Code in a way that no GC is triggered in those sections, quite easy to track down with profilers.

Not able to do that? Just surround the code block with a gc.disable()/gc.enable() or similar.

> AFAIK, one of the main reason people come up with custom allocators is that the system new/delete (malloc/free) are expensive to call. E.g. it is much faster to pseudo-allocate memory from system pre-allocated static memory, in your app.

Which funny enough is slower than in languages with automatic memory management, because the memory runtime just do a pointer increment when allocating.
Now if it were my code in a movie, it would probably be something I was very proud of. Hollywood, having no idea what the code actually does, instead makes the code brick the hero's machine at the worst moment. Hero dies. Everybody blames me. :(
Great advice. Since OP wants a 13" notebook with a high res display, he might want to look into getting a 13" retina MacBook Pro. In Italy, that model costs Euro 1530, which is in the same range as the DELL he bought.

OP: if you can swing it, get yourself a Mac and see if you enjoy using it. If you don't, you can return it if when DELL fixes your notebook. Also, there are 12 Apple Stores in Italy. If you happen to live near one, service and support is a lot easier and more direct.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features-retina/

http://www.apple.com/retail/storelist/
This is really cool!

Didn't realise NSS was part of the Mozilla project, might start having a read of the bugtracker and see what there is :D
Responsive experiences
In 2001 when I was shopping a for a new computer I was talking with the Dell Rep. over the phone about different types of monitor. There was one that was 200 dollars more expensive than the other. I asked the Rep. what was the difference and this was her response "mmmm, one is more espensive" in a couldn't care less kind of tone. Horrible customer service. And the comparison to an incompetent government employee is pretty apt. Dell deserves to be ridiculed for this.
I grew up in France, this isn't unexpected or unusual for the government to do.
But it is a perfect example of why administrative rights (the ability to delete/censor an article) should reside in a country that has complete freedom of the press, America.
Illegal status of material should be adjudicated by a court of law, not by a civil servant in a covert agency.
If anyone is looking for a gentle introduction into this sort of thing, Jeremy Ashkenas (of Underscore/Backbone hame) wrote a wonderful Ruby wrapper for Processing [0]. The syntax is remarkably simple (and Ruby!). Here's an example of the Mandelbrot set [1]

[0]: https://github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing

[1]: https://gist.github.com/prezjordan/4391313
Callous disregard for human life is evil.
My dad was a mathematician and legitimately had an Erdos number of 2 (Meaning someone he co-wrote a paper with had co-written a paper with Erdos)

When I was small, and even into high school, my dad helped me with my math homework. So I claim that I co-wrote many math related things with my dad, and so I have an Erdos number of three with a big fat asterisk.
The angled ones on the body top yes, but they're not torpedoes they're ramjet anti-ship missiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-270_Moskit

320kg warhead flying at mach 3. They're comparable to the Harpoon except carry 50% more payload and fly 3 times as fast.

On the sides of the cabin are the engines.
That's fair. Though I think anyone who just picks technologies based on these bar graphs alone is also missing the point, so some critical thinking is required to interpret these benchmarks, as usual.
I also purchased one of the new XPS 13 1080p models as a replacement for a 15" MBP. From everything I had seen about this model, it was one of the first "Ultrabooks" that approached the MacBook Air in terms of build quality, pleasing and stylish aesthetics, and of course the 1080p screen.

The first unit they sent had horrible backlight bleed in the upper right and lower left corners of the screen. Dell's first 'solution' was to offer to send out a tech to replace the screen. I requested a new laptop, since after all, it was only about a week old at that point.

I received the 2nd unit, and while there was no backlight bleed in the upper right or lower left, there was similar bleeding on the lower right and upper left this time.

I'm truly disappointed at what is otherwise a fantastic piece of hardware. It seems that Dell was more concerned with getting a 1080p model in their catalog than ensuring that they could actually build the things successfully.

I'm trying for a 3rd, after which I'll stop trying and go buy an MBA.
If you're primary use will be OSS development then you're best bet is to buy a cheap PC and throw Debian on it. I'd go with the testing branch, which, despite the name, is very stable.

In my experience it's a lot easier to use existing OSS code on Linux than it is on OSX. OSX is a lot better than Windows, but I found I spend a lot of time on OSX debugging weird library problems and trying to get dependencies installed. A common problem is that I'll be trying to build/install a library, but it'll have a prereq that isn't met because Apple included an ancient version of it. Fink and MacPorts help a bit, but at that point it you might as well just install Linux, since they're basically emulating the various Linux package management systems, but they don't integrate with the OS very well.

On Debian I "apt-get install" the -dev package for the library I want to use, and everything works. And on the rare occasion a library isn't available through apt-get, building from source is almost always as easy as "./configure && make && sudo make install". Sometimes that'll work on OSX, sometimes it won't.

In the meantime you might want to try Linux or OSX in VirtualBox first. Sounds like your VMWare installation might be broken.
In my opinion the official arduino lacks of good features. It's 2000 style kind of forum. Find details here: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,158796.msg1189123.ht... Whereas SO with editing wiki features and a clean tagging mechanism leads to a very clean Q&A knowledge base. Which implicit builds a good API documentation.
So, dramatically less efficient than modern sea freight, while lacking the flexibility to deliver to inland airports that you get from air freight.

PS: Why did you answer your own question?
Like this? http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx
I open source because once upon a time, when I was a lowly entry level Supply Chain Analyst that had no influence over IT expenditures, I often fell into a trap where I needed better tools but couldn't buy them.

-Access Databases have stupid problems, but SQLServer is too expensive? Postgres!
-SAS is out of reach and Excel is dumb for multiple linear regressions? R!
-Reporting is too manual in Excel and VBA is fragile? JasperReports!
-Cognos/OBIEE is not possible? Mondrian!

Open Source amplified my power and productivity by 10-100x, and it didn't cost me a dime. Small contributions ended up making even bigger impacts. Open Source is a positive feedback loop, and you get a surprising amount back for the tiny bit that you put in.
I'm a fan of pfsense [1] on an alix board [2]. The alix boards a little pricey for a router, but has a real amount of memory (256MB). The only downside is that pfsense, since it's based on FreeBSD, doesn't support any 802.11n cards, so you're either stuck with 802.11g, or using a separate access point like I do.

Add in a managed switched and you have the start of a real network at home.

[1] http://pfsense.org/
[2] http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm
"Don't buy Dell" has been my rule for years, but the XPS 13 was supposed to change that. This is the same hardware used in their "Project Sputnik" Linux Developer laptop running Ubuntu.

Most reviewers gave the 720p model very good ratings. It's very unfortunate that the 1080p model seems to be having issues (see my top level comment).
Agreed - always use wired when possible, especially if you have gigabit-capable equipment.

Note that in most cases wireless systems are far slower than theoretical speed, but 100Mbit wired ethernet is good for 90+ in both directions simultaneously, so in most cases it'll be faster than 802.11n, and with better and more consistent latency.
How it looked some years later:
http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/
The constant generation of new balnace-holding addresses on demand, that are not typically shown to the user unless they dig, is an arbitrary choice of the Bitcoin-QT software, not a requirement of the protocol. In the protocol/blockchain, you can see every public key that has ever received any balance. You can have all your 'change' returned to a small set of pregenerated/registered addresses.

So the government just says, "Here, use one of these 12 wallet programs, they are certified as automatically compliant by the IRS. Using other software makes compliance your own headache."
Thirteen variations on less
You need to adjust the default xmit power, in Tomato I use 63. There is a guy would did a bunch of testing of xmit power for the RT-N16 here http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/asus-rt-n16-tra...
Since when did iOS have 47% market share? Also, who has ever used Kantar WorldPanel as a source?