skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with laptops is moderately recent. I've mostly had Toshiba, and apart from the need to download drivers for wifi, ethernet and sometimes video, they've been fine. I had a Lenovo Thinkpad L512, and it was fine too and quite robust, but I wasn't thrilled with its speed. Had an Acer for a week; returned it because it had half a dozen things wrong with it and my too-late google research revealed very little chance of them being fixed.

In general, I've been happiest with Toshiba, but I know they're pricier than some others. I hear from computer salesmammals that HP, Compaq and MSI all have huge problems with returns, and of course Acer are horrendous for tech support. Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo and Dell all have good names for Linux support, but bleeding edge is always less well supported.
It all depends on how strictly you define "competition". Things might be different in your segment, but my experience is that there is often a lot of room for mutually beneficial cooperation even between fairly direct competitors.

At one startup we sold access to our kick-ass CMS to another web design shop on a per-project basis. They got better tech and won more bids, we got to amortize our R&D costs over more projects. I doubt we ever lost even a single customer to them. There were tens of competitors just in our city, and they were targeting slightly more upscale customers anyway. Pure win/win.

When I sold consulting and support for an open source compiler, of course I talked with the guys doing the same for a competing compiler for the same language. Even though both our main customer was the same company. (Who slightly dysfunctionally were using both compilers for different projects). Why not?

Right now I work for a telecoms system supplier. It's always completely unclear what the overlap between our system and another supplier's is. So it's totally worthwhile to talk to them and figure things out. You never know what the outcome will be. They really could be a direct competitor. They could pat us on the back and say "that's so cute, we started out that way a decade ago". We could be complementary enough to cooperate of RFPs. They could want to license the technology and integrate it to their system. Or, yes, they could want to buy the company. It would be insane not to talk with these people just on the fear of wasting half an hour because you don't want to be acquired.
Even if people are fundamentally good, someone still has to gather the data necessary to decide what a reasonable limit is, and someone has to advertise that limit. The next step is to turn the limit into a law so that it has an effect even on careless people.
AppGratis pulled from app store by Apple
I was so tempted to headline this 'Persona non AppGratis'
9th SUSE Hack Week starts on April 8th
I miss site counters... Said no one ever... Felt a bit nostalgic after I saw the ALL CAP HTML tags
m_mueller is correct thought that "hand-waving" can mean being deliberately vague or evasive, especially in the context of describing mathematical processes.
ProCam, votre iPhone ou iPod Touch devient un véritable appareil photo numérique
unclear, the license says "interacting with", so even getting a not authorized response technically entitles you to a copy of the source code...
If it weren't for the code comments, it would've been hard to notice that it was the OP's code. It's sometimes very hard to find the differences between C-based POSIX/BSD socket code written by multiple parties - especially when it comes to the set-up routines. Kudos to the OP!
Object Files (1999)
Two things:

1) Awareness is not knowledge

2) The inventors of the technology are not who I meant by the enthusiasts.

I am not trying to reproach the technologies developers. I am simply trying to warn off the over-impressionable, and calm the hype artists.

Surely you are aware of the plethora of 3D printing enthusiasts and the great dearth of useful things to do with it?

I particularly hold those hype artists responsible who have not tried to 3D print anything. This obviously doesn't hold for the 3d printer inventors. But one tends to have one's enthusiasm muted when the jet clogs, the material spills out on the edges, the refills cost enough to bail out a small european island, the software barfs, the whole process takes HOURS and the eng product is a liney, smooshy, oozy, breaky catastrophe.

This technology is NOT READY FOR THE HYPE and in the glories of rapid commercialization there are going to be damnable, industry draining, momentum churning, radical to conservative turning, uber-disappointment, and public opinion will again overshoot, and we will again be forced back into enterprise software, and it will all be preventable and all our fault.

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Check this stuff out, instead, to get a broader view of new construction:

Pop-up machine assembly. Mass producible, high quality materials. Machine components are possible -- things you could never otherwise have.

http://vibrantresearch.com/

Pneumatic robots. Moving. Human compatible. Flexible. Packable. Lightweight. Strong.

These are simple sown and braised (sometimes unbraised!) polyurethane. Way faster than 3D printing. Actually does things. Super cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqP3IpEqkk4

Computer sciences should have by new realized the great advantage in the methods here outlined.

A linear element cutting or sewing a surface which then pops out works much faster than a linear element zigging and zagging building up layer by layer. This is a fundamental characteristic of the technology. Also you can use less material, and stronger.

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A friend of mine, Tim Anderson, founded ZCorp, one of the first useful 3D printers. The basic advance played to strengths, and worked fast, you could build up layers quickly, cheaply, and even use color, thanks to printing liquid onto a powder on each layer.

The material kind of sucked for material properties, but you'd have color, so you could show something in 3d, (stress concentrations in 3d, for example) and you could do art with it. Awesome.

But that's about what you can do with it. Show things. Make art.

That's cool. But that's not why people are getting into it. They're trying to take magic from their minds, to the computer, out to the real world. But you're stuck in a lame version of the real world when it takes 14 hours to make something out of expensive by cheap seeming plastic. And it sucks because people already can make such amazing things.
If you want inspiration you need look no further than Winston Churchill. You could try to overcome it. I really like the card idea below. Why not Freelance... since most of it is done over mail.
This is slightly meta, but it's nice to see the attitude of the OP here. It quite matches my own.

It's always disappointing to see my work appear somewhere else without credit, but usually it is not worth moaning about. At the end of the day, he put that material up to be helpful to someone - and even if it wasn't used in the way it was intended, or with appropriate credit, at least it was still helpful.

It's a good attitude to have, I feel.

Especially as it means he gets to feel "cool, my work is in a hollywood movie" rather than "they stole my work". A much more positive feeling :)
Not sure how much time you have but this has helped me a lot.

http://codingforinterviews.com/

It doesn't look like they have historic emails but if you shoot me an email I'll forward them to you.
Man, PyPy got destroyed, let alone CPython! As a Python lover, that's pretty disheartening. I'm not an expert in many of these languages, but it would seem as though it should be possible to build a Python interpreter as fast as V8, even without using Numpy to accelerate the math. Anybody have any thoughts as to why PyPy is such a poor performer here?
That looks to be true on the basis of the sample here! Ebert's writing is perhaps not as well known here in the UK.
Apps don't just assemble themselves out of family wealth. If they did, where are the apps from Qatar?
I remember being perplexed looking at the intrade exchange pricing during the last presidential election. I wasn't the only one. Nate Silver and Paul Graham wondered about it too

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/oct-23-t...

https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=2615138971341414...

The bets on Obama not being re-elected seemed way too high. I convinced myself at the time that this must have been due to either personal bias or perhaps a strong republican leaning userbase on Intrade. But now it's starting to seem like it may have been part of some scam.
I have an Asus as well, I'm on 13.04 and my card is a NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 635M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM. Bumblebee seems to work well with the latest nouveau drivers, I normally use the intel chipset for everything but playing Counter Strike. I spent a lot of time trying to fix this as well but nowadays it's pretty easy, for me it was just installing the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver from xorg-edgers then bumblebee and boom: optimus works.

If I had to recommend a laptop, I'd recommend this one, an Asus K56CM:

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K56CM/

Probably like 3 or 4 months ago I would not recommend it, but these days optimus support is decent at least for a typical setup.

PS: get an SSD for that computer and you'll have the ultimate linux dev. laptop right there.
Agree. ThinkPad series is really good for Linux.
Its up to Pinterest to try to enforce their trademark if they think they are too similar, which is unclear. The word pin alone is not enforceable, so Pinry likely ok.
I have a Dell Inspiron n5110 laptop and although bumblebee works fine for me, I have a video tearing problem on Ubuntu no matter which graphic chip I use. When I play a video file, it becomes like this[1]. So I wouldn't recommend buying an arbitrary Dell laptop without enough research.

[1] https://bitly.com/YZebSi
Go UK, go! Here's a petition to ban them in the US, to be presented to the EPA this Earth Day (4/22):
http://www.causes.com/causes/430648-bee-the-change/actions/1...
To do hardware accelerated 3D with nouveau, you need the
to use the experimental nouveau mesa driver. It kind of works
for some situations, but it still unstable and incomplete. You
can find details here:

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers

At present, nouveau is only working in a handful of linux
distributions (with or without experimental hardware accelerated
3D support). All of the other UNIX-like systems are presently
unable to run nouveau (e.g. all of the BSD's)

The most important issue is actually the wasted developer time.
Countless hours of developer time have been wasted in the attempt
to reverse engineer the proprietary binary nVidia drivers for the
sake of recreating their functionality in the open source nouveau
driver. If nVidia wants the business and support of open source
developers and users, then they should provide all of the required
specs and documentation for their hardware needed to write open
source drivers.
How? Serious question, I'm not challenging!

This work reminds me of what 'analogue' means. There is no coding of the sound, each stage in the analogue process represents the varying intensities of the various pitches as some variation in a property of the storage medium.

Any form of digital representation (CD, mp3 whatever) requires a convention to interpret the raw stream of numbers. If you don't know the convention then you have a string of numbers.
A new reason why to comment your code well :)
I think the great innovations of high bandwidth are still to come; imagine doctors able to pull data and compute from anywhere instantly on any device, or even streaming live doctors anywhere in the world, or CERN able to send results as soon as they are processed, or complete 4k classrooms from multiple angles.

Bit pie in the sky I know - but a bit of a dream!
In his 29c3 talk [0], Sean Bonner from Safecast [1] mentioned that air monitoring is something they'd like to do as well.

I'm very much interested in monitoring air pollutants. I live in a place in Germany where BASF built "the worlds largest chemical plant" right next to the centers of two cities with about half a million residents combined [2]. And of course, you can smell that they pollute the air with something. Yet there is no information whatsoever on which chemicals they dump into the air and what the concentration is. The usual air quality measurements cover O3, SO2, NO2 and PM10 [3]. It's probably easy to monitor those yourself, just buy a sensor. But how do you monitor something that you can smell, you don't know what it is? Mass spectrometer?

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGjdloVPKQ
[1] http://blog.safecast.org/
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.4947&lon=8.4424&zoom=14&layers=M
Is student->H1B->green card the only path available for entrepreneurs looking to set up shop in the US? That is an incredibly long path: especially the H1B->green card step, which can potentially take as long as a decade.

Does anyone know of alternate routes?
Python just 8x slower than C and 4x slower than Java? That's actually pretty good result for Python.
How about a Samsung series 9?

Has anybody on HN tested one of those? Searching around the net shows that there were small hw issues but they have been fixed in latest kernels.
Obligatory programming language shootout link: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
Is it possible to get insurance against embezzlement?
Not in the eye of the mere mortals. Those 3D-cutters are just something that exist somewhere in a factory, could just as well be a black box. Most couldn't care less, you can't own a 3D cutter, unless you are really dedicated. Anyone can own and tinker with a 3D-printer.

Even the difference of being able to play or rent a 3D cutter at work or through some service, or iterating something at home that you've made yourself, where the only real cost to it is your time spent having fun, is game changing.
You mention the limits which were there due to technical constraints and i agree somewhat..

However, there also was a certain degree of "limitlessnes" in a sense that you could (and at least i would) try out a lot of different things and sometimes they'd have some sort of funny effect or some unexpected result - for example if you'd open a stump of a tree in Monkey Island (or was it MI 2? Not sure after all those years) you'd be asked to insert disk #38 or something...

And IMHO it's all those little things and details that makes those games stand out in a time where everything is polished to absolute detail (in terms of GFX and CGI) and yet the worlds feel dull and unpolished...
Unlike most other language designers today, Rust's designer was more concerned about getting the concepts right than the syntax. So the syntax came late in the process, and as far as I know they did get inspiration from various sources. Possibly that is what bugs you.

I don't think there is a single document about syntax choices. It's evolved a lot in the past three years.
Very unscientific trials of my own suggest Win7 users relate to KDE slightly better than Unity.

I simply hand my thinkpad to students in class and get them to start a Web browser and log into the Moodle instance.

KDE mostly ok, Unity getting into browser easy, but most try to close the window by clicking on the System Settings icon on the right top ('cog wheel'). They also find the global menu strange at the start.

It only takes two minutes to explain how Unity works though...
Really doubt it.

And the idea behind paper prototyping is to be able to discard without regret. Once you code, you can get attached to your first ideas and not iterate, or iterate over some arbitrary restriction set by the tools. Paper prototyping makes it easy to "kill your darlings" without regret.

More than that, the second and probably more important idea is to avoid the customer to get attached to an un-iterated design, and the "but it's almost done!" effect that can be devastating when negotiating times.
Perhaps they can still give credit in the DVD/BR release. He should get in contact with the producer.
Android version is in private beta, should be ready this month.
I'm pretty sure they are used to deliver power as well.
Seo price packages india
It was just a good excuse to talk about our favorite games. I haven't played any of the Double Fine games yet, but to my knowledge they haven't made any classic point-and-click graphic adventures - before the kickstarter-backed Broken Age that is [1]. I hear the old talent is still evident in the DF games though, and they seem to be story and character based.

[1] http://www.brokenagegame.com/
"It all comes down to the fact that the Unity launcher is forcibly placed on the right hand side and I always accidentally click on it when trying to click somewhere in the region."

Just hide the thing and press the Windows key and type? I used dwm/dmenu for a year or so and never missed having a panel at all!
Interesting problem, but I don't think it will actually be that big of an issue. The merchant could generate a new wallet for every customer, and simply "dump" any wallet under attack by said customer.
Fully 3d mind mapping software. Free download
3d mind mapper allows you to build mind maps by the most natural way for humans - to 3-dimensional world. http://www.3dmindmapper.com/
What's next aside from trendy hipster TLD's located in the Indian ocean? I mean I/O amirite?!?!?!
Such people (if they really exist) will be able to change the UI to match their workflow. I managed it and I'm just an end user.

dwm/dmenu or similar, or xmonad for the adventurous. Sysadmin people might prefer icewm as it is tiny and can tile 12 terminal windows easily!

Ubuntu with default Unity is aiming at a wide market here. Having i7 small form factor PCs available with hardware chosen to run a GNU/Linux is good!
> just ask anyone sitting on the large piles of stolen bitcoins that have yet to be retransfered.

Wow, I never thought about that. Very interesting! Does anybody have more insight into this?
That's actually an interesting idea:

Would a ToS hold up in court that specifically denied access to the company's service by government employees?

If a company had that in their ToS, and they discovered that a government employee had used their service, could they sue for damages?

Are businesses in the US obligated to provide service to government employees?
It's interesting to consider a Chromebook with the Crouton chroot package. Crouton can get you a side-by-side system with ChromeOS for the specialized kernel and power management, and a plain-jane Debian or Ubuntu system at the same time. Worth a look.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html is the canonical counter argument. Unless you can counter the arguments presented within, your perspective is flawed.
My Edge 13 version with AMD had issues with fan control and overheating. Also, graphic card drivers were bad compared to Windows :/
Another great thing about Danielles's post is that this will hopefully incentivise funds/investors to update their public information on databases such as CrunchBase. I'm pretty sure some investors are not happy to see their name on that list, not because they are "zombies" but due to a simple case of not updating their transactional/deal information.
"Google was never really interested in the idea of "open" — yes they love "open" when it helps them, but it's actually a very opaque company which has a "my way or the highway" mindset."... Shades of Microsoft
I guess Linux finally got mainstream games thanks to Steam..
Oculus Rift - TF2 Gameplay
Tabs have a length of 1.
I'm using HP Pavilion m6 running linux mint 14 for last 5-6 months. Very happy with the performance. I use it only for development and browsing etc i.e. no games. I've turned off the dedicated graphics card to get better battery life. I get about 6 hours on full charge. Not bad for 15.6 inch screen.
That's a strange contrast with the ridiculously precise progress bar. Probably not the choices of the same person.
Elites have alcohol problems too
>>..every generation of Americans has tried to close the door to immigrants that try to come after them

And the first generation(and next few) butchered the native habitants or sidelined them to the reserves. Is this the entire story?
You could be right but it sounds to me like you're back fitting a story.

3d printing has a much more convoluted history than that. It's not trumpeted as something for hobbyists to make fun plastic prototypes. It is being heralded as the future of manufacturing. There once was, and still is, hope for making actual useful components.

3d printed prosthetics. 3d printed casting moulds. 3d printed blood vessels and kidneys. 3d printed jaws. 3d printed mass customizations. 3d printed drones. 3d printed RepRaps. Clearly the tech press has been going mad for the stuff.

But one shouldn't believe the hype: your makerbot cannot do any of that, and even the nifty flexing Objet printed business card I received (which must have cost $4 to make) broke after a few months -- I have a shard on my desk.
I wonder to what extent it may contribute to BitCoin's deflation: drug dealers make money on Silk Road, can't readily transfer it out of BitCoins, and probably think there's a good chance BitCoins will continue to become more valuable anyway, so they leave the money sitting in BitCoins.
right, the USD has some institutions and a very large community (i.e. a nation) behind it, and they're huge so its not really an easy comparison with Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not 'just bitcoin', it also has institutions and a community, they're just much smaller at the moment.
@MRB transaction volume is dependant on the price isnt it? If price goes up so does the volume?
I wrote the Yesod tests for this benchmark.

It uses Warp.

Actually, the performances of Yesod are not so bad, as Play's are.
Top performing frameworks (netty, vertx, go) are not web frameworks but async programming frameworks. They don't carry a lot of things around -- just push the serialized data on the raw socket output stream. Yesod/Play/Django/Rails/... on the other hand must manage routes, content types, browser headers, etc etc....
Can I use it on an iPad? For non phone app prototypes an iPhone screen seems rather small.
I concur with your thoughts on this. If someone were to take my work and repackage it as their own and sell a product that is essentially just my work (or mostly just my work) without my permission is one thing but using a tiny fragment of my code in a movie to make things look a little more realistic is very different. They could have just got any bit of code and 99.99% of the audience would never know the difference. They was nothing special about this guys actual code, it just look good.
Dell Inspiron 15R SE comes with pre-installed Ubuntu and works fine! :)
Of course. I know his nick from the work on Rust.
Heh, the first time I saw LightSail, my immediate thought was "replace the crappy battery powered UPSes and diesel generators at datacenters", and then "add redundancy to industrial facilities which could benefit from it (mills, processing plants, etc.) which don't have UPSes because they're too inefficient/expensive in the multi-megawatt industrial scale, and then grid-leveling. I never would have thought of vehicles.

The closest I'd get to vehicles would be something like a supercharger station -- absorb power from the grid at night (or from solar panels), lightsail it, and then dump 480v into a Li-Ion Tesla in an hour.
YC companies have raised $6-15mm within a few months of Demo Day, I believe. I don't think the limiting factor is "how much money is available", but how much can be reasonably used.
That's a very ambiguous headline...